George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:49:41PM -0500, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
>> George Georgalis wrote:
>>> /usr/pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt says:
>>> * PKGMAKECONF: Location of the mk.conf file used by a package's
>>> BSD-style
>>> Makefile. If this is not set, MAKECONF is set to /dev/null to avoid
>>> picking
>>> up settings used by builds in /usr/src.
>>> However pkgsrc seems to use /etc/mk.conf if it
>>> exists (PKGMAKECONF unset).
>>
>> I think you're misunderstanding the documentation for PKGMAKECONF.
>>
>> pkgsrc itself uses /etc/mk.conf (or if you bootstrapped your bmake, it uses
>> ${PKG_SYSCONFBASE}/mk.conf). PKGMAKECONF is the file used by packages that
>> themselves use BSD makefiles (makefiles in ${WRKSRC}). The two are
>> different.
>
> okay, I didn't realize they where different....
> thanks,
> // George
The documentation is correct, but I misread when George posted it as
well. I think if the last sentence would be less confusing as:
If this is not set, MAKECONF is set to /dev/null to avoid picking up
settings intended to control builds of the base system or pkgsrc
infrastructure.