Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:10:45 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260110.BAA07974@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25, 9:54am
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996
> Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src?
> > Because the default object directory for joe user running make in
> > /home/joe/src/prog is /usr/obj/home/joe/src/prog.
>
> And..? It's correct! It's the same way it *used* to be, in fact.
What, even without /home/joe/src/obj? How about if joe had:
/home/joe/src/obj.i386 -> /home/joe/i386/obj
/home/joe/src/obj.sparc -> /home/joe/sparc/obj
> Unless you by luck had your src directory *really* under /usr/src, the
> sed script which intended to strip /usr/src off always failed and
> you'd end up with /usr/obj/actual/source/path/<something>, something
> which was guaranteed in the case where you had "joe" checking out and
> building parts of his own tree.
I think I remember some implementation bugs along these lines. That's
a far cry from being a design bug, though.
Mark.
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