From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 18:37:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10427 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10422 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA12280; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma012278; Sat, 5 Dec 98 18:35:43 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id SAA02099; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:35:43 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199812060235.SAA02099@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... In-Reply-To: <19981206033108.E8663@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Dec 6, 98 03:31:08 am" To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:35:42 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eivind Eklund writes: > > 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 I think for maximum flexibility you'd perhaps need a "-p path" (default: "../..") for specifying the pathname to the top of the /sys directory, since config builds the Makefile. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message