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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2016 10:26:43 -0700
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: [Build] Enabling automatic object directory creation
Message-ID:  <96291.1464542803@kaos.jnpr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfotR8dsBrK-NzGj%2BLg-A0E%2BF2JLTaZQ%2Bhq%2Bqmh8dnMTgw@mail.gmail.com>
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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > The feature is named 'WITH_AUTO_OBJ'.  Enabling this by default means
> > that the only way to disable it is to add WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes to
> > environment, make argument or /etc/src-env.conf.
> 
> I tend to think this is a good idea. However, more and more is moving
> into sys.mk, and it's been collecting lots of odd pebbles...

The issue in this case, is that presence/absence of objdir affects
.PATH, so if auto objdir is to be done, it greatly simplifies life to do it
as early as possible ie, during sys.mk 



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