Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:52:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels Message-ID: <200007131952.NAA26585@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:21:34 PDT." <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> References: <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007092043510.33246-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000711103710.B21954@wantadilla.lemis.com> <396ADB61.5736BF19@newsguy.com> <20000711182903.K23115@wantadilla.lemis.com> <396C57FD.F73C1942@newsguy.com> <20000713092049.C3907@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In message <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : Greg Lehey wrote: : > : > On Wednesday, 12 July 2000 at 20:35:25 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: : > > Greg Lehey wrote: : > >> Yes. We could agree to change the tree to /usr/obj, but it should be : > >> consistent whichever way you do it. In the process we should also use : > >> obj symlinks like other BSDs use: : > >> : > >> === grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttyp5) ~ 1 -> cd /src/OpenBSD/src/sbin/fsck : > >> === grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttyp5) /src/OpenBSD/src/sbin/fsck 2 -> l : > >> total 1 : > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 grog lemis 512 Apr 17 1999 CVS : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 171 Sep 22 1997 Makefile : > >> -r--r--r-- 1 grog lemis 421 Apr 18 1999 TRANS.TBL : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 3616 Mar 25 1999 fsck.8 : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 10548 Feb 28 1997 fsck.c : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 6034 Sep 9 1997 fsutil.c : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 2714 Oct 20 1996 fsutil.h : > >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 May 28 20:20 obj -> /usr/obj/sbin/fsck : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 1857 Oct 20 1996 pathnames.h : > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 8734 Mar 25 1999 preen.c : > > : > > Oh, I *like* that! But it prevents one from using RO /usr/src. : > : > Not at all. It's an absolute symlink outside /usr/src. : : Without an architecture prefix/postfix/directory somewhere in the path, : this prevents concurrent cross-builds. Yes. We used to do the obj symbolic link a long time ago. It was a really bad idea and caused us all kinds of grief. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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