Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:00:00 +1300 From: "Joerg B. Micheel" <joerg@begemot.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: UNIX Heritage Society <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, joerg@begemot.org Subject: Re: Why upper case configuration file names in BSD? Message-ID: <20000204120000.A26832@begemot.org> In-Reply-To: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:49:28AM %2B1030 References: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:49:28AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD > kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper > case. Does anybody have insight as to why this should be? I have no knowlegde, but a guess. Berkeley must have had different machines with different hardware configurations. Conditional compilation is done with a dependency flag. GENERIC defines -DGENERIC. A MICROVAX file would imply -DMICROVAX. It may be for this reason only, conventions. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@begemot.org> Begemot Computer Associates Phone: +64 7 8562148 40 Masters Avenue, Hillcrest Fax: +64 7 8562148 Hamilton, New Zealand Pager: +64 868 38222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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