There was a good reason this wasn't there before and a good reason I put it
back. 

Neither distrib or etc should be descended to on a build unless explictly
asked to. Now your assuming that anytime a rules change in bsd.*.mk which
may change internal rule names in some way will be propoaged to etc and
distrib.  I guess whomever is doing that will "remember" to come to 
etc/distrib and fix it here when that happens.

The last I want is a build descending into etc when I don't have DESTDIR
set and some rule in there torching part of my system's real /etc because
the null rules in there aren't "quite right"...

Plus it's much more effecient to not descend into dirs that are only going
to be used on a make release (and even then distrib is only walked by the
make inside of etc's Makefile)...

As it was, the old behavior was there for a reason, the new behavior broke
the build and posed a much more dangerous setup for everyone to have to bear.
(for what I can is zero gain....simplicity isn't an excuse, the current 
Makefile is just as much of a mess as the old one...)

In short I'm not seeing any reason this shouldn't have remained as-is, 
especially without some form of discussion first...

James


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>Module Name:	basesrc
>Committed By:	tv
>Date:		Wed Oct 24 01:07:13 UTC 2001
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>Modified Files:
>	basesrc: Makefile
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>Log Message:
>Revert previous.  etc and distrib do now belong in _SUBDIR; the correct fix
>for broken builds is to fix the relevant Makefiles as was done for sparc.
>This was done in the interest of simplicity of the system build (and the
>fact that there may be a need to descend into these directories in the
>near future).
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>To generate a diff of this commit:
>cvs rdiff -r1.140 -r1.141 basesrc/Makefile
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>Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
>copyright notices on the relevant files.
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