On Wed, 22 May 2002, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> in mk/bsd.pkg.mk:
>
> ##### Prevent /etc/mk.conf from being included by a distribution's BSD-style
> ##### Makefiles.  We really don't want to pick up settings that are used by
> ##### builds in /usr/src, e.g. DESTDIR.
> MAKE_ENV+=      MAKECONF=/dev/null
>
> this prevents my 1.4.3 a.out i386 from updating pkgtools, since without
> OBJECT_FMT defined, bsd.own.mk defines OBJECT_FMT=ELF which puts in
> dependencies for /usr/lib/crtbegin.o, which of course doesn't exist on
> an a.out system.
>
> if not /etc/mk.conf, where else am I supposed to set OBJECT_FMT and
> CFLAGS and the like?

Setting them in the environment should work (for packages with
BSD-style "Makefile"'s, that is).

Frederick