On May 23, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Jeff Rizzo wrote:

> While working on compiling some LKMs from pkgsrc on NetBSD/macppc,
> I discovered that while bsd.mkod.mk relies on having ${OBJDUMP} set,
> nothing actually sets it anywhere.  When sanity-checking myself
> on icb, James Chacon suggested that the correct thing to do
> was to add
>
> OBJDUMP?=    objdump
>
> to sys.mk, and explain in the commit msg that bsd.kmod.mk relies
> on it being set.  While looking into it a little further, I learned  
> that
> ${OBJCOPY} is actually being set in bsd.sys.mk - which leads me
> to question where the correct place for these definitions is.  Should
> I put OBJDUMP in bsd.sys.mk, move OBJCOPY (anything else?) to sys.mk,
> or split them between the files (I can't imagine the latter)?

Place OBJDUMP in bsd.sys.mk.  sys.mk is supposed to remain pristine  
for POSIX environments, bsd.sys.mk is the extra stuff needed for you  
build system.

>
> Thanks,
> +j
>
>

-- thorpej