Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:46:53 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 weirdness Message-ID: <200108080246.f782krx07893@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:03:42 CDT." <15216.40446.633198.784573@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer writes:
> David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> types:
> > Mike Meyer writes:
> > >
> > > Add "XFREE86_VERSION=4" to /etc/make.conf. If you don't have
> > > /etc/make.conf, create it as a copy of /dev/null. Read through the
> > > make.conf man page and /etc/defaults/make.conf for more things you can
> > > do with it.
> > FYI: My -STABLE (as of June 13) aleady has that variable set to 4 in
> > /etc/defaults/make.conf. Don't know if "make buildworld" saw 4 already
> > on my system? Or I seem to remember somebody saying 4 was now the
> > standard for FreeBSD?
>
> The standard /etc/defaults/make.conf only sets one variable,
> BDECFLAGS. If you have a line that looks like:
>
> #XFREE86_VERSION=4
>
> Then you have a comment in the documentation of the variable. If
> you've edited /etc/defaults/make.conf, then you goofed, and should
> use /etc/make.conf instead.
grumpy: {1018} ls -lt /etc/defaults/
total 89
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14273 Jun 13 22:32 make.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 49941 Jun 13 22:30 pccard.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19008 Jun 13 22:30 rc.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7062 May 10 21:25 periodic.conf
grumpy: {1019} grep XFREE86_VERSION *
make.conf:XFREE86_VERSION= 4
grumpy: {1020}
Come to think of it, might have been tempted to change it while runing
mergemaster if it came up as a diff. /usr/src/etc/defaults/make.conf
shows the same line commented out, while my operational
/etc/defaults/make.conf has it uncommented.
Not that I'm having any problems but agree /etc/defaults/ should not be
changed. Hmm. An idea for mergemaster: display a caution that
/etc/defaults/ files should not be changed from the distribution version
when diffs are found.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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