[RFC] adding a variable to .mk and Makefile.inc1 to point to top of the FreeBSD source tree

[Xin Li]

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On 05/07/13 13:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi, A common pattern that I've seen at Isilon and something else
> that I've wanted to have for a while is the ability to designate
> where the top of a source tree was. This is important and helpful
> when dealing with source files that build upon each other or depend
> on sources located in other sections of the tree; contrib stuff
> needs to set .PATH appropriately to point to sources at the top of
> the tree, sys stuff is riddled with S= in order to point to where
> /sys, etc lives, we build upon FreeBSD within an expected directory
> structure as well. I haven't come up with a name, but was wondering
> if this was a good idea, and if so does anyone have any outstanding
> patches for this that can be pushed into FreeBSD?

Is there anything wrong with the current '../../' approach?

Cheers,
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