Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:11:03 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Message-ID: <19991010121103.B41010@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <199910100719.JAA45890@gratis.grondar.za> References: <199910100719.JAA45890@gratis.grondar.za>
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On [19991010 12:00], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >> One snag with that. Sometimes a remedy for fixing a build problem is >> >> # rm -rf /usr/src >> >> and start again. I know that's probably ingrained in a lot of people's >> fingers, and they treat /usr/src as an expendable file system. Suddenly >> we'll be putting a config file there. > >Well, doing that will also blow awayt your carefully crafted >KERNEL file. That's why I put my kernel file into /usr/<mumble>/KERNEL >and set a symlink so that blow-aways dont burn me. Perhaps the >/<mumble>/make.conf could use something similar? Reasoning behind this: if you don't want sources [/usr/src] you also do not need a kernel configuration file, a make configuration script which tunes make world to your tastes and what not else. IMHO, should we split make.conf out into other files for /usr/src I think we truely need to move it in /usr/src itself. >> Perhaps /usr/local/etc/make.conf would be better? Or at least a variable >> (which can be defined in /etc/make.conf) which points to the file, so that >> the admin can easily set local policy. > >I dont like the use of /usr/local for this; that is ports' property. Agreed. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Is this all there is of me..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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