SENDMAIL_MC & making world

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Mon Oct 10 04:55:44 PDT 2005


On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:01:32PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20051009173106.GB9137 at comp.chem.msu.su>
>             Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> writes:
> : On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 08:15:12PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> : > 
> : > 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
> : 
> : FWIW, we have make.conf(5) manpage already, and __MAKE_CONF seems
> : to belong to it better than to make(1).  make(1) xrefs make.conf(5)
> : already.  I think I can do the job if you are busy with something
> : else currently.
> 
> __MAKE_CONF should be documented in make(1) since it is in
> /usr/share/mk/sys.mk and global to the entire system for all make jobs
> (not just those controlled by buildworld).  It should also be in
> make.conf(5).

Agreed.  sys.mk is somewhere between make(1) and make.conf(5), so
__MAKE_CONF belongs to both until we decide some day we need manpages
for our *.mk files.  And make.conf(5) contains an incorrect statement
that /etc/make.conf applies to system builds only.  I'll fix this.

-- 
Yar


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