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Date:      Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:43:55 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OBJLINK=yes breaks make buildworld 
Message-ID:  <13455.918081835@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:24:38 PST." <XFMail.990203102438.jdp@polstra.com> 

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> Make buildworld is broken for the OBJLINK=yes case, and it may have
> been broken for quite some time.  When the a.out legacy libraries are
> built, the object files end up in the source tree, because the "obj"
> links no longer point to the right place.  Furthermore, these object
> files don't get removed when you do a make clean or a make cleandir.
> 
> I don't have a fix.  I never use OBJLINK.  As far as I'm concerned, a
> suitable fix would be to eliminate that option altogether.

As far as I'm concerned, and speaking as the author of that hack,
I agree with you! :-)  Kill it.  Kill it dead.

- Jordan

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