Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:05:11 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/conf Makefile.alpha Makefile.i386 Makefile.pc98 Message-ID: <20011019190511.F1416@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200110191554.f9JFsY733096@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:54:34AM -0600 References: <20011019184323.E1416@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20011019152305.A1416@straylight.oblivion.bg> <200110181939.f9IJdtJ67133@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011019152305.A1416@straylight.oblivion.bg> <200110191532.f9JFWf732768@harmony.village.org> <20011019184323.E1416@straylight.oblivion.bg> <200110191554.f9JFsY733096@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:54:34AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20011019184323.E1416@straylight.oblivion.bg> Peter Pentchev writes: > : Uhm.. wouldn't it be better to (conditionally) define KODIR to KMODDIR, > : so anyone who wanted to install modules in another place will still be > : able to, without tweaking make.conf and other settings? > > wouldn't they be able to say > make install KODIR=/foobar > ? Yes, if they happen to spot the needed change in the variable name. If they depend on -stable being, well, stable :) and not changing variable names "on the fly", they might just have a KMODDIR defined in make.conf and not even think about it when they just do a make buildkernel, make installkernel, and expect it to "just work". Of course, it is very improbable that someone would be changing their modules' install directory, instead of just changing DESTDIR, but there are all kinds of weirdos out there ;) G'luck, Peter -- If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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