>: That completely defeats the current ability to do
>:
>: cd usr.bin/vi
>: make
>:
>: and have it DTRT...Having to remember to set X number of new vars just to
>: get a build working is fairly silly and prone to failure.
>
>Yes, now I remember, that's the reason I did it this way!  8-)
>
>So, to make this work Right, I'll go with the original suggestion of
>sprinkling Makefile.inc's where needed.  This is the best solution to me;
>you really need Makefile.inc's throughout the tree to get everything "glued
>together" right anyhow (to pick up the proper BINDIR and LDSTATIC defaults
>for src/"foo", etc.).

is this going to affect my ability to do things like

   % cvs co -d /tmp/vi basesrc/usr.bin/vi
   % cd /tmp/vi
   % make

and it just works?

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