"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" writes:
> >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.

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.

Perry