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Date:      Sun, 6 Dec 1998 09:15:52 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sys/compile directories...
Message-ID:  <199812052215.JAA26976@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812051353030.19384-100000@feral-gw> from Matthew Jacob at "Dec 5, 98 02:00:26 pm"

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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Umm, now that we have alpha as well as i386 regularly compiling along,
> would it be conceivable to have the compile directory become either
> sys/compile/<ARCH>/<CONFIGNAME> or have it as part of sys/<ARCH>/compile
> (I probably prefer the latter- but in either case, I use the same sys tree
> for developing both, and two different GENERIC's are a problem..)

I've already asked for this and received less that favourable responses.
Bruce wanted to have the build use an obj tree. i386 people wanted
not change (POLA). We _do_ need to resolve this issue. It's annoying.
With the possibility of support for more architectures coming, it will
only get worse.

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John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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