On May 7, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On May 7, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:05:07PM -0700, 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? >> >> I'd like to see this. There's a variable for this in NetBSD and I've >> wanted to do this because it makes code easier to relocate within the >> tree. > > This is another good reason. It would make porting code to/from NetBSD > a LOT easier… especially because I plan on pulling a lot of test/test > infrastructure code from NetBSD and I really don't want to commit too many > local changes to the Makefiles. Less divergence -> better cross-pollination > -> less work for all -> win for the BSDs. > Thanks for the reminder.. I'll base it off what NetBSD did :).
SRCDIR Once upon a time, this *HAD* to be set, and wasn't inferred from the current top of the tree. Please, for the love of god, make sure that we don't lose the infer from top of tree ability, or I will hurt you. Often. Through all the minions that owe me minor favors. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
