From owner-cvs-all Sat May 30 10:47:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07473 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 10:47:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles195.castles.com [208.214.165.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07467; Sat, 30 May 1998 10:47:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06203; Sat, 30 May 1998 09:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805301642.JAA06203@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Peter Wemm cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf vs. bsd.*.mk In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 01:36:32 +0800." <199805301736.BAA24556@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 09:42:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk First, a big cheer for the work you've been doing on all this! > So, I thought I'd see what general feelings were on the subject. Do we > really want things like ${LIBDIR} defined for *all* makefiles, including > non bsd.prog.mk etc Makefiles. Also, make.conf is also globally visible > as well. I'm sure this can't be good for posix compliance etc. Since > I've finished 95% of the work so far, should I press on and clean up the > loose ends, or should I put it in the 'too hard' basket for the time being > and try the simple way out :-). That depends on whether the simple way out will work. 8) If it's the "right" way, then of course it's worth doing. How about some more details on it? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message