[Swan-commit] [Swan-dev] Changes to ref refs/heads/master

Andrew Cagney andrew.cagney at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 19:41:08 EET 2015


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On 25 February 2015 at 11:31,  <paul at ns0.nohats.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> New commits:
>> commit 7014234166788fe0ff163ef4fb6281587f90b347
>> Author: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu.org>
>> Date:   Mon Feb 23 13:46:31 2015 -0500
>>
>>    buiding: copy Makefile.inc, Makefile.ver, Makefile.tmp to mk/config.mk,
>> mk/version.mk, mk/top.mk
>>
>>    As before have old files include new for now.
>
>
> Does this leave Makefile.inc.local intact in the root dir? Those are used by
> people to override the default settings. This also requires a documentation
> update and an update to our release scripts :P

That includes me.  Makefile.inc.local continues to be the way to
override Makefile varibles.  I don't think that will ever change.
(the way this build system overrides make variables is decidedly
non-traditional, I get to live with that).

> I kinda prefer Makefile.{ver|inc|inc.local} to be in the root dir. These
> have user servicable parts inside.

Can you be specific?  If there's something that can't be done with
Makefile.inc.local then we've a bug.  Those files, what ever the
location, really should be read-only.


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