re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/config

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

"Masao Uebayashi" writes:
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	uebayasi
> Date:		Fri Aug 28 08:31:28 UTC 2015
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/usr.bin/config: mkmakefile.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Accept only relative paths (from $S) for `file' and `object'.  Simplify code.
> config(1) does not need to be super-smart about path handling, because it is
> usually used with make(1), that is much smarter.
> 
> Pre-compiled object files, specified using `object', are regarded as read-only
> input, thus they should be put under $S (or $S/..), as part of a source tree.

what is your reason for being so strict?

not being under $S was actually an original design point of
the "object" support, as i recall, so unless there's a really
good reason to be this strict, i would like you to revert this.


.mrg.