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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), mark@linus.demon.co.uk,
        bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net
Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:28:54 +0930."
             <199606260258.MAA02742@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 
From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:35:29 -0700
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>Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
>> 
>> > What, even without /home/joe/src/obj?  How about if joe had:
>> > 
>> >     /home/joe/src/obj.i386 -> /home/joe/i386/obj
>> >     /home/joe/src/obj.sparc -> /home/joe/sparc/obj
>> 
>> That never worked. :-)
>
>...entirely aside from the fact that there isn't an existing toolchain
>that will let you do it anyway.  And I don't see any sparc code in the
>FreeBSD tree, but I too have fielded questions about building from
>read-only source distributions.  I for one _like_ the direction you're
>headed 8)

   For what it's worth, I do too. Jordan proposed his solution to this several
days ago and I was and am all for it.

>If the tree is mounted on machines with native toolchains, then you 
>have MAKEOBJDIR set seperately for each of them, or you specify it on
>the make commandline.  I can't for the life of me see what people are
>whining about 8(

   Me neither.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project