From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 28 11:39:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28880 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28871 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@backplane.com) Received: (dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.8.8/8.6.5) id LAA19893; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:38:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199808281838.LAA19893@apollo.backplane.com> To: John Polstra Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: make.conf Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : :In article <199808281648.JAA19560@apollo.backplane.com>, :Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> ok, since nobody seems to have any significant objections to moving :> make.conf to a manual page (other then objecting to the concept of a :> make.conf at all, which isn't very constructive), unless something crops :> up I'm going to do it tonight and then blank-out the /etc version. : :Please don't mess with /etc/make.conf. The a.out->ELF conversion, :which is coming up in about 2 days, uses it. Please just leave it :alone for now. This transition is going to be hard enough without :that. What? make.conf isn't a 'local' file? :-) You guys are actually going to uncomment something in the official make.conf to do the ELF conversion? I suppose we can hold off for a week or two. *OR* we can simply add the make.conf.local functionality, which was what I wanted to do in the first place. Nice and neat, functinoal, no skin off anyone's nose except maybe for a few purists. -Matt :-- : John Polstra jdp@polstra.com : John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA : "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth : : Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications (Please include original email in any response)