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Subject: Re: svn commit: r232473 - in head: share/mk sys/conf
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On 03/03/2012 12:05, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 03/03/2012 10:58, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>>> However, since it is apparently an expected use case to build using old
>>>   .mk files,
>>
>> Expected how? It shouldn't happen if you're building in /usr/src.
>> Wouldn't it be better to track down the real bug?
> 
> I, for one, am frequently building in /usr/ports.  I have not checked,
> but I could very easily see that pulling the system .mk files from the
> installed locations and not the source tree.

Building ports where the sources and the installed kernel differ is not
a supported configuration. The fact that it happens to work most of the
time is a bonus.

This is a very dangerous precedent to set.


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