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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:37:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway)
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Breaking up make.conf
Message-ID:  <200103082137.NAA26735@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010308132433.C88665@mollari.cthul.hu> from Kris Kennaway at "Mar 8, 2001 01:24:33 pm"

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> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:32:08AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > I've though about this on and off over the years, and would actually
> > like to see src/make.conf or src/world.conf and remove the /etc
> > dependecy.  The major reason is that I often have more than one
> > src tree on a build system and I have to screw around with /etc/make.conf
> > if build environments are different.
> > 
> > This can be implemented by a simple backtrace up the tree from any
> > level looking for make.conf, terminating either when we find one,
> > or when we hit /.
> 
> In other words, pretty much exactly what I was talking about, except
> you put your world.conf in src/ where I put it in /etc :-)

Pretty much.  I think you can elimiate the need for the additional
../Makefile.inc using a .for loop just hunting for the make.conf,
it just seems silly to me to need to add 91 one line Makefile.inc's
to get this to work.


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net

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