Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:46:33 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: ache@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <199804162246.PAA10665@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199804160801.BAA06806@freefall.freebsd.org> (ache@FreeBSD.ORG)
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* Add missing commented out MOTIF_STATIC example
That part of the file now looks like this:
===
# If you have Motif on your system, uncomment this.
#
#HAVE_MOTIF= yes
#MOTIF_STATIC= yes
#
# If the default location of the Motif library (specified below) is NOT
# appropriate for you, uncomment this and change it to the correct value.
# If your motif is in ${X11BASE}/lib, you don't need to touch this line.
#
#MOTIFLIB= -L${X11BASE}/lib -lXm
===
(1) There is no description of MOTIF_STATIC. People will most likely
misunderstand the one above ("If you have Motif...") to mean both
lines and end up linking everything with libXm.a.
(2) The MOTIFLIB description is not appropriate anymore, now that
MOTIF_STATIC is given as an example here.
MOTIF_STATIC was never intended for use by ordinary users. It is only
used for package-builders. Do we add every possible variable in
make.conf (if so, I have a few dozen more from bsd.port.mk) or only
have the common cases in here?
Maybe it's time for /etc/make.conf.ports? (No I'm not kidding.)
Satoshi
P.S. I have seen half a dozen people post their make.conf with
MOTIFLIB uncommented (with the value unchanged) along with
HAVE_MOTIF. Someone please tell me how I can change the
description (the one with the big "NOT") to make it clearer that
they don't need to change it unless their Motif destribution puts
the stuff in a totally weird place. (Is there some way to
highlight text in ASCII or make the editor jump the cursor to
that "NOT" when they try to edit the "#"? ;)
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