From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 14:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20148 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20143 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.89]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3C81; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:48:39 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812052215.JAA26976@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:54:06 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: John Birrell Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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// 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. 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message