Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:57:28 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <200801250857.28585.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47979774.5040205@FreeBSD.org> References: <47949811.1080505@raad.tartu.ee> <6BA87BDA-FFAC-4329-B720-98666204FB3F@khera.org> <47979774.5040205@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 23 January 2008 02:37:24 pm Doug Barton wrote: > Vivek Khera wrote: > > > I guess I wasn't clear about my confusion. What was broken about putting > > all this in make.conf that necessitated a src.conf file too? > > One could argue that they didn't need to be moved at all. One of the > rationales at the time was that we didn't want the knobs for the base to > affect the ports. Correct, and /etc/src.conf is optional. It is a good place to put settings that you want to only affect compiles in /usr/src and not affect building apps from ports, standalone compiles, etc. -- John Baldwin
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