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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
