Subject: Re: tmp in mfs and swap
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/1996 23:18:33
On Mon, 05 Feb 96, perry@piermont.com writes:
>Jason Thorpe writes:
>> On Sun, 04 Feb 1996 11:37:47 -0800 
>>  "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote:

>>  > Have you ever tried using the -pipe flag as a default build flag?  It
>>  > should nullify any need to run mfs /tmp, at least for compiling.  I'd
>>  > be curious if it makes a difference in your case.  (Is there any
>>  > reason -pipe isn't default in sys.mk?  Does it use up *that* much more
>>  > memory while building?)

>> I could be a real lose on 4mb sun3/50 systems...

>Yet more reasons that a bunch of this configuration information should
>be in /etc, per CGD's recent suggestion. I find myself constantly
>re-editing the contents of share/mk to customize such things (these
>changes get blown away by my "make build"s) and I wonder how well this
>would work at all in an NFS environment. You should be able to set
>all this stuff in /etc, along with all the other host specific data.

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.  If you really think it belongs in /etc, just
symlink it (I know... "symlinks are evil", but this is what they're
good for...).

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