Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:54:44 +0400 From: "Oleg V. Volkov" <rover@lglobus.ru> To: James <j@evilcode.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion Message-ID: <20001018035444.A22095@fly.lglobus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20001017163956.D68779@evilcode.com>; from j@evilcode.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:39:56PM -0700 References: <20001017163956.D68779@evilcode.com>
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:39:56PM -0700, James wrote: > After having edited several Makefiles for ports, and then > having them overwritten during a cvsup, I have come up with > a suggestion that I think many people would benefit from. > The suggestion is to take most of the variables out of the > Makefile that have to do with the port's configure script, > and put them into an optional file (Makefile.opts for > example), and have the Makefile include that file if it > exists. Then it checks for the existance of several > variables (like CONFIGURE_ARGS) and sets them only IF they > aren't already set.. thus giving people the option to > customize the options without having these customizations > overwritten during a cvsup. > What does everyone think of this? Would this be hard to > implement? There's already "Makefile.local". -- Oleg V. Volkov aka Rover EH: CM Rover Join Elite Imperial Fleet! http://www.emperorshammer.org E-mail redirector: sr-13@mail.ru (always up) -=/ SR 13 /=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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