In article <199602061507.KAA18611@jekyll.piermont.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not convinced compiler configuration stuff belongs in /etc.
> > Maybe
> > we could add something to the system makefiles that sucks in a
> > /usr/share/mk/local.mk, or something similar, if it exists, that could
> > override defaults.
> 
> Again, the problem is that different machines sharing a /usr/share
> might very well not be the same architecture or want the same defaults
> -- your 4mb machine and your 32 mb machine might want different
> defaults for -pipe as an example.

But one could always make the file in share a symlink to a local file,
or have it include a file in /etc.