On May 7, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> On May 7, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 
> > On May 7, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >       This is another good reason. It would make porting code to/from 
> > NetBSD a LOT easier… especially because I plan on pulling a lot of 
> > test/test infrastructure code from NetBSD and I really don't want to commit 
> > too many local changes to the Makefiles. Less divergence -> better 
> > cross-pollination -> less work for all -> win for the BSDs.
> >       Thanks for the reminder.. I'll base it off what NetBSD did :).
> 
> SRCDIR
> 
> EVARINUSE?
> 
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:# SRCDIR    Directory where source files live.  
> [${.CURDIR}]
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:TRFLAGS+=   -I${SRCDIR}
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:.PATH: ${.CURDIR} ${SRCDIR}
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:    cd ${SRCDIR}; \
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:SRCDIR?=    ${.CURDIR}
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:    cd ${SRCDIR}; ${UNROFF} ${MACROS} ${UNROFFFLAGS} \
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:    cd ${SRCDIR}; ${UNROFF} -ms ${UNROFFFLAGS} \
> share/mk/bsd.info.mk:SRCDIR?=   ${.CURDIR}
> ...
> share/doc/llvm/Makefile:SRCDIR=         ${.CURDIR}/../../../contrib/llvm
> share/doc/llvm/Makefile:.PATH: ${SRCDIR} ${SRCDIR}/lib/Support
> share/doc/llvm/clang/Makefile:SRCDIR=           
> ${.CURDIR}/../../../../contrib/llvm/tools/clang
> share/doc/llvm/clang/Makefile:.PATH: ${SRCDIR}
>  
> Once upon a time, this *HAD* to be set, and wasn't inferred from the current 
> top of the tree. Please, for the love of god, make sure that we don't lose 
> the infer from top of tree ability, or I will hurt you. Often. Through all 
> the minions that owe me minor favors.
> 
> I don't want to break that ever; it's a fantastic feature. If you could point 
> me to where that magic awesomeness lives (make?), I'll be more than happy to 
> address it in my branch where I'm going to do this.
> 
> I really don't like how NetBSD turned their top-level build command into a 
> shell script [in part because it needs to bootstrap a bunch of tools]. It 
> makes things painful when doing iterative builds..
> 
> So all in all, I completely and wholeheartedly agree with your concerns.
> 
> Oh sweet.. this is something to keep in mind too (from bsd.port.mk)...
> 
> # SRC_BASE      - The root of the src tree.  (Some ports require this to get
> #                 kernel sources).  Default: /usr/src
> 
> All else fails, ports has done it first -_-...
> 
> Not the first var I've seen this done with...

I thought ports specifically named things differently to avoid conflicts.
Warner

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