Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:02:25 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Breaking up make.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103120142540.21718-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010310170844.C36413@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:49:30PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Also, the previous patches don't include bsd.own.mk, which we depend
> > on being included to define OBJFORMAT. So I backed that part of them
> > out.
>
> Rather than all this funk, why not do what the Ports Collection does --
> have its own bsd.*.mk file. So make it that /usr/share/bsd.*.mk all
> include /etc/world-make.conf, and sys.mk does not. Thus if I am just
> using BSD make, but not all its bsd.*.mk frame work, I won't get bogus
> CFLAGS settings.
>
> I.E., lets assume /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk is the domain of /usr/src only.
The main reason is that make.conf often needs to be included before
parsing Makefiles, or at least at the start of Makefiles, but most
Makefiles include bsd.*.mk last.
The ports .mk files configure paths much better than sys.mk. They
use ${PORTSDIR} but sys.mk hard-codes 3 absolute paths in /etc.
Bruce
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