Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:35:29 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), mark@linus.demon.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260335.UAA00245@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:28:54 %2B0930." <199606260258.MAA02742@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: >> >> > 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. :-) > >...entirely aside from the fact that there isn't an existing toolchain >that will let you do it anyway. And I don't see any sparc code in the >FreeBSD tree, but I too have fielded questions about building from >read-only source distributions. I for one _like_ the direction you're >headed 8) For what it's worth, I do too. Jordan proposed his solution to this several days ago and I was and am all for it. >If the tree is mounted on machines with native toolchains, then you >have MAKEOBJDIR set seperately for each of them, or you specify it on >the make commandline. I can't for the life of me see what people are >whining about 8( Me neither. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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