RFC: USES=kernsrc

[René Ladan]

2013/10/29 Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org>:
> On 2013-10-29 10:09, René Ladan wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> while stagifying the sysutils/biosfont port together with bapt@ at
>> last EuroBSDCon the idea for a USES=kernsrc (or USES=kld ?) came up.
>> This new USES would both simplify and unify writing kernel module
>> ports because it adds all the common lines.
>>
>> The result is at http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/kernsrc.mk
>> (download it into Mk/uses/ ). An example of a converted port is at
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/biosfont.diff
>>
>> Last nits to solve:
>> - decide about MAINTAINER
>> - maybe change plist substitution to "${KMODDIR:C,^/,,}" (i.e. strip
>> leading '/' )
>> - maybe mute ${ECHO_CMD} lines (prefix with '@') in kernsrc-post-install
>> target
>>
>> Documentation:
>> - add a note to CHANGES
>> - add a section to the Porters Handbook
>>
> This would be useful for sysutils/lsof as well.  It needs the current src
> tree.
>
Yes, but a current src tree is the only aspect of kernsrc that lsof uses.
I should probably rename kernsrc to kld.

René