From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 14:06:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16797 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16784 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA26976; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 09:15:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812052215.JAA26976@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Dec 5, 98 02:00:26 pm" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 09:15:52 +1100 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (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 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Umm, now that we have alpha as well as i386 regularly compiling along, > would it be conceivable to have the compile directory become either > sys/compile// or have it as part of sys//compile > (I probably prefer the latter- but in either case, I use the same sys tree > for developing both, and two different GENERIC's are a problem..) I've already asked for this and received less that favourable responses. Bruce wanted to have the build use an obj tree. i386 people wanted not change (POLA). We _do_ need to resolve this issue. It's annoying. With the possibility of support for more architectures coming, it will only get worse. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message