From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 17:42:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06283 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06278 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA12060; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma012058; Sat, 5 Dec 98 17:40:58 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA01908; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:40:55 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... In-Reply-To: from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Dec 5, 98 11:54:06 pm" To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:40:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (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 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// 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) FWIW, I vote for sys/compile//. 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