From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:14:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Include Makefile.localdef in Makefile, if it exists.
Message-ID: <7vmzjixaak.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <3061.1133591717@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> ...  I might
> send along such a patch, along with a note about config.mak in
> INSTALL...

Please don't, unless you are confident your change can satisfy
_everybody_.

People with makefile needs that are more "advanced" (that is,
something a simple "-include config.mak" cannot easily satisfy)
can do any number of things without touching Makefile I ship.
Examples include:

 - have own makefile, include Makefile.

 - have onw Make script, run "make -f Makefile" with preset
   "bindir=HERE NO_XXX=NoThanks" to reduce typing.

 - have own makefile, whose build target depends on Make.file
   and runs "make -f Make.file", with a build rule for Make.file
   to munge Makefile using custom perl/sed into it.