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On 29.07.2011 03:27, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> This will make it even harder for people who try to compile our
> bits on alien systems without bmake.
Bits referring to multiple directories at once? Using a make flavor, that 
already supports .CURDIR, but not .CURDIR:H? Do such things even exist?

Personally, when I need to build a sizable BSD program on another system, I 
begin with building bmake (NetBSD's pkgsrc project helps with that). Or, if it 
is not a big program, I just create a GNUmakefile from scratch -- gmake is 
omnipresent these days.

> I am not sure if that is a concern we should care about.

I don't think, we should either...

    -mi