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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:22:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Matt Hamilton <matt@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Make world with a different working dir
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matt Hamilton wrote:

> Hello All,
>   Is it possible to do a make world with 2.2-RELENG such that it uses a
> different directory for all its work?  I don't have enough space on my
> system for all the source and obj code, so I want to have that on a
> mount other than /usr, then just have it install to /usr (and other
> places)

Sure, just link /usr/obj to the desired destination.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major