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Date:      29 Aug 1998 10:29:47 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make.conf
Message-ID:  <xzp1zq0w5qc.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:16:33 -0600"
References:  <199808290422.WAA18049@pluto.plutotech.com>

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"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> writes:
> I just reviewed the contents of /etc/make.conf.  Although it does allow you
> to set a few variables that may apply to any bmaked compile, almost every
> entry in there is specific to either the FreeBSD src or ports tree.  Why is

Random idea: split up make.conf into make.conf (CFLAGS, COPTFLAGS, and
perhaps X11BASE, HAVE_MOTIF and MOTIFLIB) which is always read by
make, and build.conf (everything else) which is only read when
building world or ports.

DES (who uses bsd.prog.mk a lot)
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no



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