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Re: Recent commits by Derek
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Aug 19 15:27:16 1996
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-athena@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:18:57 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:26:18 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
The problem is that I need to know ATHENA_SYS during *imake*. There
is no way, as far as I can tell, to look at shell or environment
variables in imake. So, I modified the Imakefile to pass it to imake
when the Makefile is created.
* We already require ATHENA_SYS to be set during the build in
various modules, so there's no need to avoid using it
directly.
It *DOES* use $ATHENA_SYS directly; it is just a way to pass
ATHENA_SYS to imake. What it does is run:
imake <normal imake stuff> -DSYS_NAME=${ATHENA_SYS}
If you can think of a better way to pass ATHENA_SYS to imake, I'm all
ears. But I couldn't think of anything else, and this seemed harmless
enough. If you know of some other way for Imake to look at
environment variables, please let me know!
* An important property of a build system is the ability to
type "make" in a subdirectory and have it work just as if
you had descended into it from above. Not all of our
modules have this property currently (because they were
based on already-broken build systems), but that's not an
excuse to break it for modules that do have it.
I never broke this! This still works. And my changes do not affect
this. The change I made *ONLY* affects "make Makefiles"...
-derek
