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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.

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