Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 03:31:08 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: sys/compile directories... Message-ID: <19981206033108.E8663@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 05:40:55PM -0800 References: <XFMail.981205235406.asmodai@wxs.nl> <199812060140.RAA01908@bubba.whistle.com>
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On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 05:40:55PM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: > 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. http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/config-objdir-patch2 IIRC. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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