Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> 
> > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every
> > > time.  One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very
> > > out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all.  I cannot even test it
> > > (well, I haven't tries hard).
> > 
> > If sparc64 support is out of date and the maintainer is nowhere to be 
> > seen then I think you can put that support to graveyard until someone 
> > comes up to update it. Putting all common stuff to every platform to 
> > common.rmk is a good way and the only way (in my opinion) to go forward.
> 
> OK, then there is an issue that it doesn't work if done naively.

What is the problem exactly?

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."