SENDMAIL_MC & making world

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-10-09 12:20, Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:55:54PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
>>On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, 17:47+0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>>> I'd like to set SENDMAIL_MC in my /etc/make.conf files conditionally
>>> so that it is not set when I'm making {build,install}world.  I
>>> upgrade several machines over NFS from a single build server, and of
>>> course installworld breaks if SENDMAIL_MC differs from what was set
>>> during buildworld.  At the same time, I'd like to have SENDMAIL_MC
>>> set for the rest of the time on the machines because `hostname` is
>>> not a suitable way to construct the .mc names on them due to local
>>> setup peculiarities.  Any ideas how to achieve this effect?
>>
>> It is possible to override make.conf location via __MAKE_CONF
>> variable and use different make.conf at the build,installworld
>> stages.  Perhaps that suits your needs.
>
> Uh-huh, two make.conf's instead of one don't look like a great burden.
> Even better, I can put the buildworld-stage make.conf in src or obj
> shared over NFS to build clients, and I'll no more have to keep the
> local copies on clients in sync with that of the build server!  Thanks
> for the cool idea!

*EXACTLY*

I've always found __MAKE_CONF very useful, but it's not documented in
the ``obvious'' places (i.e. the manpage).  I think I should add at
least a note about it in the manpage of make