From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Sep 27 05:51:53 1995
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA29539
          for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 05:51:53 -0700
Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA29530
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 05:51:45 -0700
Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA05112
  (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:46:53 -0500
Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA10105; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:32:24 -0500
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:32:24 -0500
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Message-Id: <199509271232.HAA10105@bonkers.taronga.com>
To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
In-Reply-To: <9509261306.AA14836@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>
References: <199509260541.AAA04042@chrome.jdl.com>
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

In article <9509261306.AA14836@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>,
Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:
>That suggests to me that our startup ought to be driven by make and
>not sh, then.  But then there's the problem of auto-editing Makefiles.

No, don't auto-*edit* makefiles. Auto-*generate* makefiles.

exec 3>&1
exec >/etc/Makefile
cat /etc/pkg.d/.base/Makefile
start="start:"
stop="stop:"
for i in /etc/pkg.d/*
do
	pkg=`basename $i`
	if [ -f $i/start.mk ]
		then
		if [ -f $i/start.dep ]
		then echo "$pkg-start: `cat $i/start.dep`"
		else echo "$pkg-start:"
		fi
		cat $i/start.mk
		start="$start $pkg-start"
	fi
	echo ""

	if [ -f $i/stop.mk ]
	then
		if [ -f $i/stop.dep ]
		then echo "$pkg-stop: `cat $i/stop.dep`"
		else echo "$pkg-stop:"
		fi
		cat $i/stop.mk
		stop="$stop $pkg-stop"
	fi
	echo ""
done
echo $start
echo $stop
exec >&3
exec 3>&-

Now you can "cd /etc; make start".

>Maybe we can auto-edit Imakefiles more safely?

Imake is *evil*. Evil, evil, evil, evil. Using cpp as a general preprocessor
works, barely, for X. Don't drive anything else down that path.