In the last episode (Jun 03), Mirar @ Pike developers forum said:
Hm. It ought to be a check somewhere there. How does the BSD system use make.conf? Does it have a parser written in perl or something?
It's just a makefile fragment. I believe BSD make reads it automatically (included by /usr/share/mk/sys.mk).
__MAKE_CONF?=/etc/make.conf .if exists(${__MAKE_CONF}) .include "${__MAKE_CONF}" .endif