NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 25 06:39:32 PST 2008
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 02:37:24 pm Doug Barton wrote:
> Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> > I guess I wasn't clear about my confusion. What was broken about putting
> > all this in make.conf that necessitated a src.conf file too?
>
> One could argue that they didn't need to be moved at all. One of the
> rationales at the time was that we didn't want the knobs for the base to
> affect the ports.
Correct, and /etc/src.conf is optional. It is a good place to put settings
that you want to only affect compiles in /usr/src and not affect building
apps from ports, standalone compiles, etc.
--
John Baldwin
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