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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:43:22 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with dhclient builds for shared src? 
Message-ID:  <199902112143.NAA07650@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:34:57 PST." <Pine.NEB.4.02.9902111332450.25161-100000@epistolic.cynic.net> 

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> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > Umm- I have a /usr/src shared by an alpha && an i386. The alpha build
> > falls over because there are a bunch of i386 binaries in sbin/dhclient-
> > isn't it supposed to work that all binaries are off in /usr/obj? 
> 
> It sure is. Check that you have an obj.alpha symlink in src/sbin/dhclient,
> and that it actually links to a real directory (one that's not been
> removed). Without this, the build system will simply silently dump
> them wherever it can. (This is one of the main reasons I really,
> really dislike the idea of obj directories, and would rather have
> builds start from the directory containing object files, rather
> than the directory containing source files.)

Er, we don't use obj symlinks; the object directory is implicit.  It 
sounds like Matt tried to build without an object directory on the 
i386, and as you say, ended up with objects in the source directory.

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