CPUTYPE weirdness

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:54:41PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:35:46 +0200
> Pascal Hofstee <caelian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just installed a fresh FreeBSD/amd64 7.0-RELEASE and trying to
> > update to RELENG_7_0.
> > 
> > I added CPUTYPE ?= core2 to my /etc/src.conf and every call to make
> > in /usr/src now gives me the error
> > 
> > "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 142: CPUTYPE global should be set
> > with ?=.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Anyone has any idea what i am doing wrong here ... this same mechanism
> > has worked flawlessly on several other systems (although they were not
> > RELENG_7_0) ?
> 
> Ok ... minor follow up.
> I found one way to "resolve" this problem, which consists of
> besides /etc/src.conf also creating an /etc/make.conf that contains a
> single "CPUTYPE ?= core2".

Another mistake:

You do not declare CPUTYPE in src.conf; you put it in make.conf.

Please read the src.conf(5) and make.conf(5) manpages to distinguish
the difference in functionality.

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