From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 5:40:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenworld.com (host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.123.150.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B2537B405 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 05:40:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominic_marks@btinternet.com) Received: from there (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenworld.com (Postfix) with SMTP id F3EC66A9 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:41:09 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dominic Marks Organization: Student To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Addition to /usr/share/mk/sys.mk, Comments? Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:41:09 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010829124109.F3EC66A9@host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenworld.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've often found a need to have a user specific make.conf in which I can store various variables. A patch to /usr/share/mk/sys.mk makes ~/make.conf be evaluated last which I find very useful especially when installing ports under users home directories, the patch is a tiny three liner, if tested it on my home system. Because its evaluted last it can override the others, which I imagine could be a security hole or perhaps undesireable for root? In which case it should be evaluted second and leave /etc/make.conf for last. Any opinions? Perhaps this mailing list is not the ideal forum for this discussion, however I couldn't think of a list that would be better. If you can reccomend one ... Thanks Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message