Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 16:15:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf vs. bsd.*.mk Message-ID: <l0313030ab195dc7dcd91@[208.2.87.10]> In-Reply-To: <199805302042.GAA13569@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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At 8:42 PM -0000 5/30/98, Bruce Evans wrote:
>We want them defined for all bsd.*.mk files if they are "constant".
>BINDIR can not be defaulted because it varies within a single world,
>and LIBDIR is variable if you want it to put {aout,elf} in it.
Virtually NOTHING is constant. Quite often if may be desirable for
it to take on a default value because we have not specified any
overriding value. For example, the source is likely, but should not
be required, to be in /usr/src; the target machine architecture is
generally, but not always, the same as that of the machine on which
it is running; etc.
I SHOULD be able to simultaneously compile, from the same source tree,
systems for two different machine architectures and/or variations
of compile parameters.
Richard Wackerbarth
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