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Date:      Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:54:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com
Subject:   Re: sys/compile directories...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981205235406.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199812052215.JAA26976@cimlogic.com.au>

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On 05-Dec-98 John Birrell wrote:
> 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.

IMHO it's better to use sys/ARCH/compile to denote the architecture it's under
(after all we make our kernel specifications in sys/ARCH/conf, so ../compile
would seem logical, at least in my eyes)

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