From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 23:51:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05945 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05893 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25417; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:51:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: fullermd@futuresouth.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Matthew Fuller wrote: > OK, I'm not too good at reading makefiles, especially more involved ones > such as, say, /usr/src/Makefile. > So here's my question: would make buildworld or make installworld choke up > badly if I put the object dir ${WORLDTMP} under usr/src? > Or, but another way, have /usr/obj sym-linked to be at /usr/src/obj? > Would that choke up a buildworld/installworld horribly? Your performance would probably go down the tube, but I couldn't see why it wouldn't work; the subdirs are hardwired. The object directory specification is OBJDIR, BTW. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message