Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:03:49 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260103.BAA07884@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25, 9:02am
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > > $ cd /tmp > > $ cvs co cat > > $ cd cat > > $ make # builds in ".", OK > > $ make clean > > $ mkdir obj > > $ make # still builds in ".", not OK > > WRONG. This is not how it works now! I don't know what this weird > fixation people have with trampling on /usr/src now is, What's this weird fixation one person has about sources not being built where they always have been. :-( (By the way, that reference to `/usr/src' should have been to `.', since modulo bugs there is nothing special about /usr/src.) I, too, expect the behaviour described by Bruce, and much prefer make(1) having hooks for doing things I tell it to than assuming knowledge of a /usr/obj heirarchy which was previously purely convention (and the whole obj directory thing was optional modulo a few bugs). This will certainly confuse anyone who has to deal with both FreeBSD and any other 4.4BSD-derived system. > Don't be fooled by the `objlink' stuff as that's > only user convenience - the make system does *not* follow the link! Oh, so I have to add some confusing redundancy to my system now to get anywhere near the behaviour I'm used to... :-( > > $ make # now builds in /usr/obj/tmp/cat :-( > > Exactly! That's correct. Not if I didn't tell it to. > Sorry Bruce, but there's nothing broken here except your expectation > that everything should be still broken in the ways it was broken > before! :-) It wasn't broken (much). By the way, there may have been bugs in the original code preventing it, but what's *now* the proper method of having simultaneous obj.i386 and obj.sparc (say) symlinks in `.' (so that `ls obj.*/.' works, among other things). Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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