Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:25:22 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260125.BAA08095@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Jun 25, 4:54pm
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> From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > As I understand it, the purpose of the obj stuff was to allow building > multiple architectures in one tree, and the symlink/'/usr/obj' was a way > to keep *all* of the build files in one area. However, you could use > obj directories just as easily (the previous version of bsd.obj.mk > allowed this, but this was removed). Nate's words reflect my understanding of the 4.4BSD build system precisely. Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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