Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:27:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: mark@linus.demon.co.uk, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <26040.835817244@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 23:36:30 %2B1000." <199606261336.XAA28908@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> I would like to point to breaking documented behaviour of obj.machine,
> obj and MAKEOBJDIR, but this behaviour seems to be undocumented. The
> man page only documents the use of MAKEOBJDIR (not what it does) and
> the tutorial doesn't mention anything to do with obj directories (not
> even ${.OBJDIR}).
Thanks for noting this - I *did* indeed RTFM on this to see what the
conventions were and when I saw that nothing was mandating that
MAKEOBJDIR be a relative path, I figured I wasn't breaking any of the
published interfaces by changing it. However, I can say that if it's
just the change to MAKEOBJDIR which is sticking in people's craws, I
*can* change it to something else - it's only referenced in one or two
places and trivial to change. I simply didn't want to add yet another
variable to the mix when an old one could be chaned, but if people
really do want a new OBJBASEDIR variable or something (suggestions
accepted :-) then at this point I'm more than happy to give it to
them. I still think that this variable, whatever it is, should be set
in sys.mk since we already set things like the X11BASE there.
Jordan
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