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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:26:31 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        nate@root.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/acpi Makefile.inc
Message-ID:  <20040115031722.F2686@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040114.172325.71181558.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040113130843.4702F16A54D@hub.freebsd.org> <20040113093817.E62202@root.org> <20040114.172325.71181558.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote:

> In article <20040113093817.E62202@root.org>
> Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
>
> > Is this the right approach?  If you want a single Makefile.inc in
> > /sys/modules, then why not just include ../../Makefile.inc?  Why make an
> > empty one that just includes its parent, which leads us to a twisty chain
> > of Makefile.inc's, all the same?
>
> I think that this is a better and simpler way than adding
> '.include ../../Makefile.inc' to all Makefiles in subdirectories.

Right.

The twisty maze in the modules subdir is the fault of the directory
organizers.  Modules should be in a flat hierarchy like they are when
they are installed.

Bruce



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