[K42-discussion] Complete build/mambo regress with GIT Makefile.new

[Patrick G. Bridges]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Livio Soares wrote:

>   Ok, I _did_  have to fix something  in the Makefile.new to get   
> my NFS to
> work  correctly. Looks  like the  "SITE" variable  was being  hard- 
> coded to
> 'unm'. While this may have worked for you, it didn't for me :-)
>
>   So, I changed it to  use the traditionally exported $K42_SITE  
> environment
> variable. This fixed  my problem, and seems to be  more flexible.  
> Hope this
> works for you (patch attached).

I'm not sure I like the heavy reliance of makefiles on set  
environment variables for kernel compilation. It makes it harder for  
new people to get started compiling and running the kernel. I'd  
really they rather they edit a configuration or the top-level  
makefile, personally.

-Patrick