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

[Ole J. B. <ole...@ya...>]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:24:29 +0200, Etan Reisner <de...@un...> wrote:

> 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
>

Well, what do other people do with git and local modifications? 'make -f custom-makefile' ?


git has some sort of relevant mechanism: http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2010/02/git-tip-ignoring-modifications-to-tracked-files/

- Ole