From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 18:31:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09907 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09902 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:31:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA07500; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 03:31:09 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id DAA09571; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 03:31:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981206033108.E8663@follo.net> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 03:31:08 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Archie Cobbs , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... References: <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 05:40:55PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 05:40:55PM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > > >> 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// or have it as part of sys//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) > > FWIW, I vote for sys/compile//. > > What about this idea.. "config -d directory ..." where you specify > the directory you want to compile in. config(8) automatically > adjusts all the filenames, etc. http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/config-objdir-patch2 IIRC. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message