From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 18 1:26: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E3937B503 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1I9Q1W01716; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 02:26:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102180926.f1I9Q1W01716@harmony.village.org> To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: Moving Things [was Re: List of things to move from main tree] Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:19:39 PST." <11284.982487979@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <11284.982487979@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 02:26:01 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <11284.982487979@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Jordan Hubbard writes: : Absolutely, we're in violent agreement on that point. I'm just : suggesting that instead of having the policy be represented by : SUBDIR lines in Makefiles, it should instead be something like : this: What I have right now is approximately: make buildworld . foo.conf for i in $subdirs; do (cd $i ; make install) done where foo.conf does the installation. There are lots of flaws with it, but it does let me build 8M flash parts that boot (but don't do much useful). The how of this is just eyecandy. :-) however, to be accepted, the eyecandy has to be sweet enough and survive the bikeshedding and still not look too bad. don't know if I have that in me :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message