On Monday 26 January 2009 05:06:48 Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:55:29 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk
wrote:
I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf
It doesn't seem to work:
This behaviour is correct. The local makefiles have precedence
before the /etc/make.conf settings.
They don't, even though it seems so. The Makefile is *read*
after /etc/make.conf. The Makefile sets this variable unconditionally,
therefore cannot be overridden by anything that is read before the Makefile.
If the Makefile defined it like so:
NOT_FOR_ARCHS?=alpha ia64
then /etc/make.conf would work, since the variable is defined at the time the
Makefile is read.
What am I doing wrong?
You could modify the port's Makefile itself, or create Makefile.local
in the port's dicrectory with your specific settings, but I don't
now if this mechanism is still supported.
It is and since Makefile.local is read *after* the Makefile, you can override
the variable there.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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