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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:29:21 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@sri.MT.net
Subject:   Re: Building inside of /usr/src? 
Message-ID:  <25463.835824561@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:59:24 -0000." <199606262159.VAA04209@linus.demon.co.uk> 

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> > really do want a new OBJBASEDIR variable or something (suggestions
> > accepted :-) then at this point I'm more than happy to give it to
> > them.
> 
> How does this variable differ from BSDOBJDIR?

BSDOBJDIR was only used in one place, the gross-and-often-dysfunctional
sed script that used to make the obj links.  When that went away, it
was removed since it wasn't referenced anywhere else.

> > I still think that this variable, whatever it is, should be set
> > in sys.mk since we already set things like the X11BASE there.
> 
> That's a bug.

And it's been that way for ages.  You didn't answer the question. :-)

					Jordan



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