From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 10:56:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E9816A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:56:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gandalf.online.bg (gandalf.online.bg [217.75.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 395BD43D54 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:56:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 8101 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2004 10:56:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO straylight.ringlet.net) (217.75.134.254) by gandalf.online.bg with SMTP; 28 Oct 2004 10:56:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 3140 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Oct 2004 10:56:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:56:52 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dan Strick Message-ID: <20041028105652.GC975@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Strick , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org References: <200410281023.i9SAN27L001781@mist.nodomain> <20041028105100.GB975@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041028105100.GB975@straylight.m.ringlet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: questionable feature in FreeBSD pmake X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:56:30 -0000 --JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:51:00PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:23:02AM -0700, Dan Strick wrote: > > I just spent a *very* frustrating hour trying to figure out why the > > FreeBSD make program was invoking all commands to make things in a > > subdirectory named "obj". I eventually discovered this gem in the > > make man page: > [snip] > > .OBJDIR A path to the directory where the targets are built. > [snip] > > 1. ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/`pwd` > > 2. ${MAKEOBJDIR} > > 3. obj.${MACHINE} > > 4. obj > > 5. /usr/obj/`pwd` > >=20 > > I believe this feature is a real botch because it is magic, unintuitive, > > and so *exceedingly* easy to invoke by mistake. >=20 > Actually, this feature lies at the base of the FreeBSD base system build > infrastructure, and it is pretty much The Feature that allows us to > build from read-only and/or NFS-mounted sources shared among wide swarms > of machines :) Oh, and let's not forget cross-platform builds, too. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@cnsys.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If I had finished this sentence, --JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBgNB07Ri2jRYZRVMRAuehAJ9tdy5l+vAovQ73grok51BD4LtbuQCdH25/ zloLytOrcAIBTWbxF+Qt14c= =xTkv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu--