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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: Heads up!  obj changes coming via sup/CTM.
To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:18:55 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199606241532.JAA20604@rocky.sri.MT.net> from Nate Williams at "Jun 24, 96 09:32:01 am"
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> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > My changes to support the linkless-obj tree have now gone into
> > -current and will appear shortly in peoples' trees.  The bootstrap
> > for this involes a slight "stutter" due to the make changes.  Rather
> > than launch right into building the world, please type:
> > 
> > 	cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make
> > 	make clean all install
> > 
> > Then make the world as you normally would (and *do* make the world,
> > your /usr/obj will need to be rebuilt and the new mk files installed).
> > 
> > The first thing you'll probably notice is that your obj symlink
> > has gone away.  Don't worry - things are still going into /usr/obj,
> > it's just not being done through a symlink.  If you want the symlink
> > back for other reasons, type `make objlink' at any level of the
> > tree.
> 
> Would you mind me adding a hook in /etc/sysconfig to have this happen
> 'all the time' if the user desires it, for those of us bass-ackwards
> types?
> 

This ``hook'' should be controlled by a knob in /etc/make.conf, not in
/etc/sysconfig.  


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