* De: Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-28 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ]
> You see how the current approach affects other architectures if you
> look at the diff for src/sys/conf/kmod.mk. All architectures,
> including those that don't have multiple variants will have a link
> added that mirrors the machine link. I find that aestheticly
> displeasing. If you have the variants under <machine>, you don't
> have to create more links.
Only within the kernel build directory. That's at Peter's request.
Doing it for the installed version breaks mkioctl.
> The change to src/include/Makefile also seems to have a bug in
> that it depends in /usr/include/platform to be created by
> mtree, but I don't see and diff for that. Adding platform to
> BSD.include.dist means that every architecture gets the
> directory. Otherwise it has to be created by hand for those
> platforms that have it.
I forgot to make the BSD.include.dist change. D'oh.
> The same happens in config(8) where we create a platform link
> in all cases, not just for powerpc and mips.
See the comment for kmod.mk. It doesn't affect anything. It
can be changed, if you like.
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