Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/etc
To: Ross Harvey <ross@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/24/2003 23:37:03
"Ross Harvey" <ross@netbsd.org> writes:
> But to answer your question...  src/etc/Makefile has the somewhat unusual
> job of installing direct from .CURDIR, whereas normally files are installed
> from .OBJDIR. ETC_INSTALL_FILE is a local make(1) procedure that cd's back to
> the source dir before running INSTALL_FILE.

That's not all it did. It also has a part in labeling parts of the etc
set in the new auto-set generator goo I've been building. However,
most of what's needed to make that work is only in my tree
anyway. I'll deal with fixing things back in my tree for now -- don't
worry about it.

Perry