From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 12 14:52:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666E637B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2CMqCA91593; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010312114142.B21989@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:51:54 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Breaking up make.conf Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Mar-01 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:34:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >> We install them on the system, and document them bsd.README. > > "XXX This document is seriously out of date, it is currenly being revised." Yeah, now it has grown the new meaning that it is a generic set of Makefiles. >> No where in bsd.README has there ever eben a warning that FreeBSD or >> anybdoy else would make these private to the build world process. > > "This is the README file for the new make "include" files for the BSD > source tree." > > I point out the _BSD_source_tree_ part. And the document is out of date. This is a case of tradition overtaking things. This is the same reason that the change to the queue(3) macros to remove the explicit 'struct's didn't fly. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message