release(8) environmental variables

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-10-30 18:02, "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
>
> As far as building goes, the variables in play are:
>
>   DESTDIR, MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, RELEASEDIR, CHROOTDIR, CVSROOT,
>   EXTSRCDIR, EXTDOCDIR, BUIILDNAME, RELEASETAG, NODOC, NOPORTS,
>   WORLD_FLAGS, LOCAL_SCRIPT
>
> For stage one of the release process, the following seem relevant:
>
>   DESTDIR, MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, RELEASEDIR
>
> For stage two:
>
>   CHROOTDIR, CVSROOT, EXTSRCDIR, EXTDOCDIR, BUIILDNAME, RELEASETAG, NODOC,
>   NOPORTS, WORLD_FLAGS, LOCAL_SCRIPT
>
> Do you guys prefer to set these in make.conf(5) or as exported
> environmental variables in the shell that spawn's make(1) ?

make.conf is too invasive.  I just set them in a shell script called
`bldenv.sh' and saved in the release-checkout area :)