Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:14:44 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some proposed changes in expectation of obj'able doc makes Message-ID: <19990824171444.J65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990823160116.A96603@rucus.ru.ac.za>; from Neil Blakey-Milner on Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 04:01:17PM %2B0200 References: <19990823115900.A6290@rucus.ru.ac.za> <19990823140332.C2121@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823160116.A96603@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 04:01:17PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> I'll sgml-ify it later, but here's a synopsis:
>
> When you're using "make" to create a project, it is possible to have
> the actual output created by the make process to go into a separate
> parallel directory tree, so that you don't mess up or otherwise touch
> the original tree.
<snip>
> In my example, DOC_PREFIX=../../.. doesn't help, since you can't use it
> to find the actual doc prefix from .OBJDIR, since its ../../.. usually
> points somewhere other than you expect. This is especially so if you're
> doing "jade -d ${DOC_PREFIX}" or whatever, since it's working directory
> is actually .OBJDIR, and you don't want a relative path.
Excellent. Thanks for that, and yes, it all makes sense. I look forward
to your patches.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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