From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 00:11:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10697 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10687 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA14259; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:06:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:06:01 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message