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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:23:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell)
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sys/compile directories...
Message-ID:  <199812052223.XAA24795@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199812052215.JAA26976@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Dec 6, 98 09:15:52 am"

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As 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.

It sure *(*&*& is. It just bit me 2 minutes ago.. Not changing it is IMHO
not a sensible solution. 

> With the possibility of support for more architectures coming, it will
> only get worse.

Very much so yes.

Wilko
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