Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:16:40 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260416.EAA09754@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25, 7:15pm
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > > 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 > > That never worked. :-) Have you tried it? :-) $ cd ~/tmp $ mkdir src i386 i386/obj $ cd src $ ln -s ../i386/obj obj.i386 $ vi foo.c $ make foo cc -O2 -m486 -pipe /home/mark/tmp/src/foo.c -o foo $ ls foo.c obj.i386 $ ls obj.i386 foo $ obj.i386/foo Yes, it does. This is -current from Saturday. I'd imagine that the /usr/share/mk/*.mk rules are even fixed to avoid breaking this for /usr/src in one or more of NetBSD, OpenBSD and BSD/OS, and would be fixed in short order for FreeBSD as soon as other platforms became interesting. > > I think I remember some implementation bugs along these lines. That's > > a far cry from being a design bug, though. > > It's fundamentally the same thing if a) nobody is going to fix it and > b) it impacts your work. Who cares if it was design or implementation > related if you're still suffering either way? I guess it matters very little if you're overworked and have a deadline. :-( Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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