Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:07:20 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: configuring ports via Makefile.local Message-ID: <BF9C33C8-DFB4-11D8-BCFE-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040727122823.40c6c3c5@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Yes, I know it can be done. However, since we do support Makefile.local
> I think Radim has a point here.
Hmmm, I would not exactly say that we support configuration via
Makefile.local. Including Makefile.local is an undocumented feature for
an unspecified purpose, so I can go away everytime and must not be
relied upon. If it works for you, fine, but if it doesn't there is no
support. To make it `supported' it has the be documented somewhere,
which is something I won't like to see.
The only reference I could find is
bsd.port.mk Revision 1.285, Thu Aug 27 00:18:50 1998 UTC (5 years, 11
months ago) by asami
(2) Include ${.CURDIR}/Makefile.local if it exists. This is a local
configuration file (ala rc.conf.local and make.conf.local) so
please do not commit a file with this name to the repository.
Suggested by: dillon
while this seems to support your assumption that configuring ports is
the intended purpose, I would neither call this `documentation' nor can
I find any reference how ports should support this file. In fact just
.including <bsd.port.mk> is a suggested procedure in the FreeBSD Porters
Handbook, regardless of the presence of configurable options.
-Oliver
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