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Date:      Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:27:06 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A style proposal for referring to upper-level directories in Makefiles
Message-ID:  <5604.1311924426@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:47:53 -0400." <4E31AED9.4000105@aldan.algebra.com>

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In message <4E31AED9.4000105@aldan.algebra.com>, "Mikhail T." writes:
>The most common method to refer to the upper directory in Makefile is as 
>${.CURDIR}/..
>
>I'd like to propose we begin using ${.CURDIR:H} instead. 

This will make it even harder for people who try to compile our
bits on alien systems without bmake.

I am not sure if that is a concern we should care about.


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