From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 13 21: 4:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BEB37B41E for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2E54Bi33864; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:04:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2E54AL46434; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:04:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:04:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020313.220400.07696500.imp@village.org> To: drosih@rpi.edu Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on sys.mk change to make /etc/make.conf optional From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <20020313.211252.132928159.imp@village.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Garance A Drosihn 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message