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To: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/gcc/config/i386 freebsd-elf.h freebsd.h 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:42:16 PST."
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:43:45 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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David O'Brien wrote:
[..]
> > There is no better way.  Define in in bsd.port.mk so at least the makefiles
> > don't need it.
> 
> That may not be a bad idea.
> I'm guessing I would meet with resistance to also add this to
> /etc/make.conf ?

/etc/make.conf and bsd.port.mk are only used by the port wrapper makefiles.
/etc/make.conf and bsd.port.mk are totally ignored by 99.99% of vendor
Makefiles.  You can't have bsd.port.mk pass things like 'CFLAGS=...
-D__FreeBSD__' to all the real makefiles because many will break as they
build CFLAGS from other definitions, and some don't even use CFLAGS at all.

Cheers,
-Peter