Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:39:06 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Arch" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Subject: Re: [RFC] adding a variable to .mk and Makefile.inc1 to point to top of the FreeBSD source tree Message-ID: <20130507203906.GB40460@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wS21otQr1fBqQ2z=XQjUV30QUjdtyAkzC_Tf1Ts%2BPq%2B8g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGH67wS21otQr1fBqQ2z=XQjUV30QUjdtyAkzC_Tf1Ts%2BPq%2B8g@mail.gmail.com>
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--rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:05:07PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hi, > A common pattern that I've seen at Isilon and something else that I've > wanted to have for a while is the ability to designate where the top of a > source tree was. This is important and helpful when dealing with source > files that build upon each other or depend on sources located in other > sections of the tree; contrib stuff needs to set .PATH appropriately to > point to sources at the top of the tree, sys stuff is riddled with S= in > order to point to where /sys, etc lives, we build upon FreeBSD within an > expected directory structure as well. > I haven't come up with a name, but was wondering if this was a good > idea, and if so does anyone have any outstanding patches for this that can > be pushed into FreeBSD? I'd like to see this. There's a variable for this in NetBSD and I've wanted to do this because it makes code easier to relocate within the tree. -- Brooks --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFRiWZpXY6L6fI4GtQRAi8HAJ0fOeFrOZQuxZ7XIDQrZcpufMRVPgCff47g CxnMzuy2Rf0RdQhOTFWH0Tw= =zNT2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--
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