Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:54:06 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... Message-ID: <XFMail.981205235406.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199812052215.JAA26976@cimlogic.com.au>
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On 05-Dec-98 John Birrell wrote: > 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/<ARCH>/<CONFIGNAME> or have it as part of sys/<ARCH>/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. IMHO it's better to use sys/ARCH/compile to denote the architecture it's under (after all we make our kernel specifications in sys/ARCH/conf, so ../compile would seem logical, at least in my eyes) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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