On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:44:35 -0700 (PDT), "Jeremy C. Reed" writes:
>Can you just force it to always install sys.mk file and a bsd.own.mk
>symlink?

Yep.  You can give it:

FORCE_SYS_MK=cp
FORCE_BSD_MK=cp

to have it make copies of the system's sys.mk and bsd.* - for that purpose.
You can use =ln too to make symlinks but that would probably be a bad
idea in this case.

Note that we cannot install a sys.mk if we don't have one to install.
We could do a generic sys.mk for that purpose though.

>(What are the problems with this?)

Not much - but when using a copy of the system's sys.mk it is unwise
to use say own.mk as bsd.own.mk, its better to use all of the system's
bsd.*.mk as a set.

So, the result of install-mk will still vary from one OS to another.

--sjg