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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, rkw@dataplex.net
Subject: Re: elf vs. bsd.*.mk
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>>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.

Virtually everything is "constant", i.e. has the same values for all
sub-makes.

>I SHOULD be able to simultaneously compile, from the same source tree,
>systems for two different machine architectures and/or variations
>of compile parameters.

Not in a single invocation of make.

Bruce

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