From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 22:01:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA29948 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:01:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA29943 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA15839; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 15:05:31 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606230535.PAA15839@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Wanted: Testers for an alternate to /usr/obj (as we know it). To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 15:05:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606221401.QAA05748@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Jun 22, 96 04:01:43 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wolfram Schneider stands accused of saying: > > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >In case you ISPs out there haven't twigged to the significance of this > >yet either, with these changes you can now keep a single copy of > >/usr/src up to date for any number of machines, having simultaneous > >`make worlds' run from a single NFS mounted source partition on > >multiple clients with none of the mutual interferance problems we have > >now. That's why *I* wanted this feature, anyway! :-) > > Jordan, > > this already works with the current bsd.obj.mk ;-)))) It does _not_, because you have to _write_ to the source tree to _make_ the symlinks in the first place. Write this with a green magic marker on the back of your head : READ-ONLY SOURCE TREE > Wolfram -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[