Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:40:55 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... Message-ID: <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981205235406.asmodai@wxs.nl> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Dec 5, 98 11:54:06 pm"
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > >> 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) FWIW, I vote for sys/compile/<ARCH>/<CONFIGNAME>. What about this idea.. "config -d directory ..." where you specify the directory you want to compile in. config(8) automatically adjusts all the filenames, etc. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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