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Date:      Sun, 06 Dec 1998 05:09:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Luke <lh@aus.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sys/compile directories...
Message-ID:  <199812060953.EAA14122@ayukawa.aus.org>
In-Reply-To: <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com>

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>> IMHO it's better to use sys/ARCH/compile to denote the architecture it's
>> under
>> (after all we make our kernel specifications in sys/ARCH/conf, so ../compile
>> would seem logical, at least in my eyes)
> 
> FWIW, I vote for sys/compile/<ARCH>/<CONFIGNAME>.
> 
> What about this idea.. "config -d directory ..." where you specify
> the directory you want to compile in. config(8) automatically
> adjusts all the filenames, etc.
> 
> -Archie

        as a home user, just a small thing, as long as cd
../../compile/kernel-filename works, then its a somewhat transparent change.
which sys/ARCH/conf sys/ARCH/compile seems to make work ,,  

sys/compile/ARCH/ & sys/conf/ARCH/ means someone who has used the tree for a
while could be confused by having to go ../../compile/ARCH/NAME after running
config.

Also if more platforms are added and have more hardware specific code added,
its more logical to goto src/sys/ARCH to look through the tree for stuff fot he
machine, whereas in the 2nd case I assume there would just be more ARCH things
throught the tree as opposed to trying to keep them together <which it seems
sys/i386 is meant for, to keep all aspects of that in one place>.

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