From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 11 20:59:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6A14319 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:59:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA16922 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:50:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:50:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: MAKEOBJDIR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > This is the kind of thing I normally look into the mailing list archives > for, but since they're down now ... > > Does anyone know where there's a good explanation of how make uses > MAKEOBJDIR and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX? They're listed as being respected by > make in the man page, but it doesn't say why. I'm trying to understand > how it's used in older systems and current systems, and not able to follow > it yet. Something is done via bsd.obj.mk that I can't see (because of > make's special relationship with those two). Replying to my own message... I was working on an old 2.2.2 system, when I got home and checked the current man pages, there it was, nice as you please. Sorry to bother folks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message