On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:22:42PM +0300, Andrey Beresovsky wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > PP> I was wondering about that when I saw your PR; actually, I think that > PP> the current FreeBSD kernel building infrastructure is quite sufficient > PP> for what you want to do, without any more modifications. > PP> > PP> Why do you need different source trees and kernel config dirs? I see no > PP> problem with keeping all kernel configs for the same version of FreeBSD > PP> in the same src/sys/<arch>/conf/ directory, or at least keeping symlinks > PP> to different files in the same src/sys/<arch>/conf/ directory. > PP> > PP> Different source trees - if you have a source tree checked out to use > PP> for building the kernel, what is stopping you from invoking the > PP> 'buildkernel' target from the corresponding src/ directory, the one > PP> directly above the sys/ directory? > > My project involves automatic or semiautomatic checkouts, updates and > removals of source trees. It would be unwise to keep kernel configs in this > source trees. Thats why I need to change KRNLCONFDIR variable. Of course, I > can do it with the help of links, but I think it's not a good solution. > > I guess the changes I suggest will definitely not break anything but only add > flexibility which is typical for BSD make files. > > The solution with links is not a right thing, because it involves more dirty > work which can be avoided with a help of simple makefile modification. > KRNLCONFDIR shouldn't be overridden -- we already provide (undocumented) user-redefineable KERNCONFDIR which should be used in cases like this. KRNLCONFDIR, on the other hand, is dependent on src/ used, and should NOT be overridden.
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