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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:06:01 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306020511.11701A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305235055.24994N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Matthew Fuller wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'm not too good at reading makefiles, especially more involved ones
> > such as, say, /usr/src/Makefile.
> > So here's my question: would make buildworld or make installworld choke up
> > badly if I put the object dir ${WORLDTMP} under usr/src?
> > Or, but another way, have /usr/obj sym-linked to be at /usr/src/obj?
> > Would that choke up a buildworld/installworld horribly?
> 
> Your performance would probably go down the tube, but I couldn't see why
> it wouldn't work; the subdirs are hardwired.
Why would my performance go down the tube?
I'm not sure I see that one; since /usr/src and /usr/obj are the same
partition anyway, what's the difference?

> 
> The object directory specification is OBJDIR, BTW.
Told you I couldn't read makefiles  :-P

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