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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 23:54:17 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        Studded@dal.net, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make.conf
Message-ID:  <199808310254.XAA05996@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <2367.904524432@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 30, 98 05:47:12 pm"

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// > 	I like this idea, *if* the file is split, however creating 3 new files
// > in 3 new locations all with the same name seems like unnecessary
// > confusication to me.  How about src.conf.mk, ports.conf.mk and
// > sys.conf.mk?
// 
// Doesn't seem like confusion to me - they all live in completely
// different (and quite descriptive :) locations.  Moreover, it gives you
// a single target to look for when encountering a collection like src or
// ports - does it have a conf.mk file?  Look in there for user-tunable
// config variables then.  It doesn't?  Then you quickly know there are
// none. :-)

What do we do in read-only source trees ?

// > > If /etc/make.conf is split at all then it should be split into:
// > > 
// > >    /usr/src/conf.mk      - configuration frobs exclusively for /usr/src
// > > 
// > >    /usr/ports/conf.mk    - configuration frobs exclusively for /usr/ports.
// > > 
// > >    /usr/share/mk/conf.mk - stuff truly global to any invocation of Bmake
// > >                            e.g. variables you want both src and ports
// > >                            (and so on) to get as a base set before
// > >                            potentially laying their own on top.


					Jonny

--
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and Unix.
 We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy  S. Anderson



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