svn commit: r186678 - head/usr.sbin/mergemaster

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 1 16:28:53 PST 2009


Doug Barton wrote:
>   1. Switch to using the top level (e.g., /usr/src) Makefile, and specify
>   that we should use the *.mk files from the source directory instead of
>   the installed versions. [1][2] This allows easier cross builds and
>   simplifies (or in some cases permits) upgrading.
>   

I believe you changed the meaning of the -m flag so it now requires a 
pathname to the src tree and not src/etc.  This breaks existing usage.  
In the PR I filed there was a follow-on patch from Bjoern that amended 
my suggestion to instead add a -M option to set the source tree.  I 
thought that was an improvement over my hack.  In lieu of that you might 
want to examine the pathname supplied to -m to try to provide backwards 
compatibility by stripping any /etc suffix on the path.

    Sam



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