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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:09:37 -0500
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET>
To:        John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj
Message-ID:  <l03130301b2439e572b1c@[208.2.87.5]>
In-Reply-To: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au>
References:  <199810090854.EAA24980@chen.ml.org> from Luoqi Chen at "Oct 9, 98 04:54:26 am"

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At 4:50 AM -0500 10/9/98, John Birrell wrote:
>Luoqi Chen wrote:
>> It's been quite inconvenient ever since the build object tree was
>>relocated to
>> /usr/obj/elf. Everytime I make a small change to an application program,
>>I have
>> to rebuild it with "MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/elf make". Is there any reason
>> why the elf object tree has to be in a subdirectory of /usr/obj? Can we
>>simply
>> place the elf object tree in /usr/obj and aout object tree in /usr/obj/aout?
>
>Only when we've left it long enough for people not to mix previous aout
>builds that might be lingering in /usr/obj with elf ones. We should only do
>this when we no longer support aout. Work is still required to get to that
>point.

Or, alternately, why not allow a target that "cleans out the legacy pitfalls"
by "rm -f /usr/obj/*" and installs a "cookie" in /etc/objformat to define the
elf object root. In the master Makefile, you would add /usr/obj/elf/ as the
default case.

Richard Wackerbarth



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