From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Sep 2 23: 7:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 188CF37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 23:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 73229 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Sep 2001 06:04:50 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:04:50 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Warner Losh Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk sys.mk Message-ID: <20010903090450.C72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Warner Losh , Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010831131627.A86427@xor.obsecurity.org> <200108311118.f7VBIO124920@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010831142958.A60910@sunbay.com> <20010831141746.A1809@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010831084811.B95710@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010831184945.A16872@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010831100216.A17397@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010831193947.A17086@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010831131627.A86427@xor.obsecurity.org> <200109030211.f832BCh22404@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109030211.f832BCh22404@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:11:12PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:11:12PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > Actually, now that I think about this, I think that it would be *EASY* > to support in make. > > .include-up "conf/world.conf" > > and make would look in ., .., ../.., etc until it finds > conf/world.conf. It would then set some variable so conf/world.conf > would know where the top of the tree was (which would make things in > the tree a little easier). > > Of course, this also requires changing all Makefiles in the tree, but > that's easy to do. And then neither make(1), nor the other bootstrap tools could use it, since that would break an upgrade path :( Other than that, this sounds like a great idea. G'luck, Peter -- What would this sentence be like if pi were 3? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message