Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 15:13:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Message-ID: <37FEDD1B.24FDF38E@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910082125560.312-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > > I agree with Eivind; seeing as our make has a nice way to include files > (such as a /usr/src/make.local) only if they exist, allowing an automatic > place for users to do whatever they wish, with no interference from cvs, > why don't we just have a little include in /usr/src/Makefile, with the > proviso that anyone who makes any build complaint had better darn well be > able to say they did their test build with an empty make.local, or be > willing to have everyone inspect (and laugh at) the silly thing. /usr/src/Makefile is a bad place, as it would not affect subdirs. I'm inclined to have a /usr/src/make.conf (world.conf? :), included by the mk files, with path and name overridable by environment variables. > Make.conf should not have extra pollution, it's polluted enough as it is, > and this change at least seems to be pretty innocent. The idea is removing anything pertaining to /usr/src stuff from /etc/make.conf. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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