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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:04:50 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk sys.mk
Message-ID:  <20010903090450.C72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <200109030211.f832BCh22404@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:11:12PM -0600
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:11:12PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> Actually, now that I think about this, I think that it would be *EASY*
> to support in make.
> 
> .include-up "conf/world.conf"
> 
> and make would look in ., .., ../.., etc until it finds
> conf/world.conf.  It would then set some variable so conf/world.conf
> would know where the top of the tree was (which would make things in
> the tree a little easier).
> 
> Of course, this also requires changing all Makefiles in the tree, but
> that's easy to do.

And then neither make(1), nor the other bootstrap tools could use it,
since that would break an upgrade path :(

Other than that, this sounds like a great idea.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
What would this sentence be like if pi were 3?

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