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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:10:48 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r267824 - head
Message-ID:  <201406241610.s5OGAmKL098191@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: imp
Date: Tue Jun 24 16:10:48 2014
New Revision: 267824
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267824

Log:
  Remove fixed path as part of suggestion. Three dots are fine for most
  uses. Add a note about a correct workaround.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Tue Jun 24 15:57:48 2014	(r267823)
+++ head/UPDATING	Tue Jun 24 16:10:48 2014	(r267824)
@@ -67,11 +67,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11
 	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
 	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
 	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
-	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to "/usr/src/share/mk" to do that.
+	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
 	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
 	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
 	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
-	as well...
+	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
+	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
 
 	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
 	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to



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