Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:04:50 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk sys.mk Message-ID: <20010903090450.C72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200109030211.f832BCh22404@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:11:12PM -0600 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>
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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
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