Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:04:58 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@yahoo-inc.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: chris@calldei.com, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Message-ID: <395FA06A.6ED2CEF5@yahoo-inc.com> References: <200007021842.LAA10685@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > Actually the whole src/sys/compile thing should go away, it is
> > > one of the last things that has to be dealt with for a totally
> > > read-only mounted /usr/src. IMHO it should be moved to /usr/obj,
> > > and /usr/obj should, if it hasn't already, be enhanced to include
> > > a ${MACHINE_ARCH} component.
> >
> > It does already, but how do you propose the user build and
> > install the kernel? ``cd /usr/obj ...'' is inconsistent with any
> > current procedures.
>
> Just the argument to the cd has changed, the command sequence is
> still:
> cd blah
> make depend && make && make install.
If we're going to do this (and I'm all for anything that improves the
read-onliness of /usr/src) I suggest that we can hide all of the pain of
changing the process behind popularizing the buildkernel and
installkernel targets. Thus, when someone wants to paint the bikeshed
yellow in a few years the users won't have to be re-re-educated.
Doug
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