Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:55:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: "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: <20000714095502.A27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007131703.LAA03989@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <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> <200007131703.LAA03989@nomad.yogotech.com>
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On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 11:03:56 -0600, Nate Williams 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. > > Yes it is, because the symlink itself lives in /usr/src, so in order to > create the link, /usr/src must initially be RW. The symlink is created > 'during' builds, so you can't make it RO until after the 'make obj' step > is done. There's a way to change that. The old BSD/386 CDs had the link there on the CDs. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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