Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:39:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, rkw@dataplex.net, wosch@freebsd.org, steve@freefall.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .depend Message-ID: <199610101739.KAA20319@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610100144.LAA16453@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 10, 96 11:14:29 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > IMHO, this entire discussion results from a fundamental error in the > > > methodology of building multiple versions from a single set of sources. > > > Rather than "kluge" something else into "make" so you can "get by", we > > > should fix the methodology. > > > > What happens when I want to build several different machine architectures > > from the same NFS mounted sources instead of placing 3 times the SUP > > load on one of the severs to get thrre times the trees on three times > > the local diskk space used? > > .depend is in the object directory. Unless you're a total loser, you > _will_ have seperate object directories, right? That ".depends". If I not a total loser doing a port to a new architecture, I won't have local disk drivers and I'll be running over NFS to a remote object directory. Typically, I find I have just enough space on a given build machine for the foreign object directory -- in the local object directory (funny how that works out). So for supporting multiple machine architectures, especially for build and install testing on a 100M SCSI ZIP drive that you cart around from box to box, expect me to use the same object directory on my build host. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610101739.KAA20319>