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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:51:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Subject:   Re: Breaking up make.conf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010312145154.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010312114142.B21989@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 12-Mar-01 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:34:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> We install them on the system, and document them bsd.README.
> 
> "XXX This document is seriously out of date, it is currenly being revised."

Yeah, now it has grown the new meaning that it is a generic set of Makefiles.

>> No where in bsd.README has there ever eben a warning that FreeBSD or
>> anybdoy else would make these private to the build world process.
> 
> "This is the README file for the new make "include" files for the BSD
> source tree."
> 
> I point out the _BSD_source_tree_ part.

And the document is out of date.  This is a case of tradition overtaking
things.  This is the same reason that the change to the queue(3) macros to
remove the explicit 'struct's didn't fly.

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