From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 14:15:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04429 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 14:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04422 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.10] (user10.dataplex.net [208.2.87.10]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29897; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:15:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 16:15:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199805302042.GAA13569@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bruce Evans From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: elf vs. bsd.*.mk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message