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. -- Brooks
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