Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:04:00 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: drosih@rpi.edu Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on sys.mk change to make /etc/make.conf optional Message-ID: <20020313.220400.07696500.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <p0510156eb8b5dd5dbb37@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020313.211252.132928159.imp@village.org> <p0510156eb8b5dd5dbb37@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
: At 9:12 PM -0700 3/13/02, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: >I'm posting this here because it is a fairly fundamental change
: >to the system. It makes /etc/make.conf optional, for shared
: >environments that might want to have different settings for
: >different users. I used __MAKE_CONF to try not to pollute things.
:
: I like the idea. I would prefer a different name for the variable.
: Something without the leading __ , because to me the leading
: underscores would imply a name that a user would *not* define.
I specifically chose __MAKE_CONF because users aren't supposed to set
it and it doesn't polute the user's name space. sys.mk are global
variables. In general, people shouldn't change it, but it is there in
extreme cases, can set it.
Warner
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