Re: [Notion-devel] Proposed patch to do away with system-inc.mk.

[Etan R. <de...@un...>]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:58:20AM +0200, Ole Jørgen Brønner wrote:
> Ah.. so that's what ac stands for :)

Heh.

> I have used system-ac.mk to avoid constant diffs from git/darcs since I need local changes in build configuration.
>
> Maybe there is another way to avoid that problem though? I guess git might have some sort of ignore mechanism for these kinds of things.

Yeah, it occurred to me as I was writing my email that things like this
(and/or distributions wanting to package notion) could use system-ac.mk to
avoid needing to edit system.mk or use env vars.

But I'm not convinced that's a useful enough reason to keep it around.

I'm also open to simply having system.mk include (without failing if it
doesn't exit) a local.mk (or similar) file to allow these sort of
custom definitions.

But this is exactly the sort of thing that caused me to send an email
about this before just making the change.

    -Etan