Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:37:29 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: luoqi@chen.ml.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj Message-ID: <199810091137.NAA27535@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Oct 9, 98 07:50:09 pm"
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> 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. Ok, what about making MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/elf the default on elf systems then? Then it can stay like that for ever. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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