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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: make.conf
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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)
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no