Re: The correct way to configure compiler flags.

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 20 Oct 2010 20:39, "Aleksey Cheusov" <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:
>> Am 18.10.2010 23:53, schrieb Charles McGarvey:
>
>> mk.conf(5) describes the build configuration for the base system. This
>> is something very different from pkgsrc. It's just that they happen to
>> use the same file for configuration (mostly for historic reasons).
>
>> And this is the reason for the "preprocessor directive" BSD_PKG_MK that
>> can be used in mk.conf:
>
> How about introducing an individual .conf file for pkgsrc?
> I think it will avoid this kind of misunderstanding once and forever.

I think that would be an *excellent* idea. I know pkgsrc on non NetBSD
systems defaults to putting mk.conf under PREFIX, but I think we would
really benefit from a different name such as pkgsrc.conf or similar