Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:24:04 -0500 From: Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confusion over BSD.tests.dist Message-ID: <CADyfeQVq2gr9aGu=Zi4rpKM9FfP24c-CZ2SRjkCfQ4aBL=2-ww@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E9B8E13C-1679-4507-8949-BF8F48102E53@gmail.com> References: <83E6FED5-2E76-4E43-9547-C0DC1C90DBBD@gmail.com> <AD5A2A2F-DC12-4DBC-8E63-9EC7A872B7B7@gmail.com> <CADyfeQVxJbX7uRWtOhCsBNQdZ7=qnwH=s7QCYWQbq%2BLO4E%2BESg@mail.gmail.com> <E9B8E13C-1679-4507-8949-BF8F48102E53@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> wrote:
>> Is TESTSBASE supposed to be customizable? (And before answering that:
>
> It can be:
>
> # grep -r TESTSBASE share/mk
> share/mk/bsd.README:TESTSDIR Target directory relative to ${TESTSBASE} for tests and
> share/mk/bsd.own.mk:TESTSBASE?= /usr/tests
I know it _can_ be, but the question is: do we want to support that as
a use case? I'm not sure why anybody would want to move /usr/tests
anywhere else. If there is no real reason other than "just because",
I don't think the build system should make any accommodations to make
it trivial. (Because if it's trivial, people _will_ move it and when
things break, it's one more thing to support in bug reports.)
>> are things like LIBDIR or INCLUDEDIR user-tunabale?)
>
> Those are user tunable too, but generally not tweaked, except when dealing with packages that use bsd.*.mk (e.g. ports):
>
> # egrep --include \*.mk -r '^INCLUDEDIR|^LIBDIR' share/mk
> share/mk/bsd.own.mk:LIBDIR?= /usr/lib
> share/mk/bsd.own.mk:INCLUDEDIR?= /usr/include
Right, so they are tunable when bsd.*.mk are abused to build things
from ports (and in that case mtree doesn't apply). But I believe they
are not tunable to tell the base system where the libraries or headers
should be; if they were, I'm pretty sure things would break in obscure
ways and it'd be a "support" headache.
--
Julio Merino / @jmmv
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