From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 20 20:28:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD6337B491; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1L4Se482578; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <200102210428.f1L4Se482578@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk sys.mk In-Reply-To: from Bruce Evans at "Feb 21, 2001 02:31:17 pm" To: Bruce Evans Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:28:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: Warner Losh , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > >> In message <200102200837.f1K8bpj89576@freefall.freebsd.org> Kris Kennaway writes: >> : We now set up the reasonable default for i386 and alpha here -- given this >> : it probably makes sense to remove the corresponding code from make(1). >> >> Probably not. We really do not want to pollute sys.mk with any more >> variables than we absolutely have to. It is included for all >> Makefiles on the system, not just the ones to build the system. >> Adding things there can cause problems elsewhere. > > But polluting make(1) is almost equivalent to polluting sys.mk. The > pollution is just easier to implement and harder to remove in make(1). > > I have changed my mind a bit about this. MACHINE_CPU is not (yet?) nearly > as fundamental as the other MACHINE_* variables. It is currently just > a build option for libcrypto, so it could be handled like other build > options. > libgmp (if updated to the neest release) can use a MACHINE_CPUi variable. Although I should note that Kris wants (has expressed a desire) to remove libgmp from the base tree. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message