From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 8 9:35:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (csmd2.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De [141.44.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E478837B513 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De) Received: from knecht.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (jesse@knecht [141.44.21.3]) by csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05306; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:35:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jesse@localhost) by knecht.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id SAA05924; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:33:59 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: knecht.cs.uni-magdeburg.de: jesse set sender to jesse@cs.uni-magdeburg.de using -f To: Will Andrews Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/17265: New port devel/tmake References: <200003081710.JAA14148@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000308121908.A422@argon.blackdawn.com> From: Roland Jesse In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:19:08 -0500" Date: 08 Mar 2000 18:33:59 +0100 Message-ID: <0vsny1bc3c.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews writes: > How would the developer use the extra OS configuration files in the > location that they are installed, on a FreeBSD machine? By setting TMAKEPATH accordingly. ;) No, seriously, it is especially useful in case the installation directory is shared (using nfs) by different machines. At the installations I know that is pretty common practice. Other than that they might be specifically useful for educational purposes. IMHO it is tmake's main characteristic to be useful for development on more than one platform. Personally, I deem that reason enough to keep the other configuration directories. In case you take them out, I would suggest to remove the freebsd-g++ directory and put the files directly into share/tmake. Otherwise we end up with only one subdirectory in there. Roland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message