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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:56:59 -0800
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms".
Message-ID:  <20030128235659.A32464@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030129074647.GD1715@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>; from marcel@xcllnt.net on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:46:47PM -0800
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* De: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> [ Data: 2003-01-28 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ]
> You see how the current approach affects other architectures if you
> look at the diff for src/sys/conf/kmod.mk. All architectures,
> including those that don't have multiple variants will have a link
> added that mirrors the machine link. I find that aestheticly
> displeasing. If you have the variants under <machine>, you don't
> have to create more links.

Only within the kernel build directory.  That's at Peter's request.
Doing it for the installed version breaks mkioctl.

> The change to src/include/Makefile also seems to have a bug in
> that it depends in /usr/include/platform to be created by
> mtree, but I don't see and diff for that. Adding platform to
> BSD.include.dist means that every architecture gets the
> directory. Otherwise it has to be created by hand for those
> platforms that have it.

I forgot to make the BSD.include.dist change.  D'oh.

> The same happens in config(8) where we create a platform link
> in all cases, not just for powerpc and mips.

See the comment for kmod.mk.  It doesn't affect anything.  It
can be changed, if you like.
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