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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:40:30 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/compile .cvsignore src/sys/i386 .keep_me src/sys/i386/compile .cvsignore src/sys/ia64 .keep_me 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107021838420.38045-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107012316.f61NGqU28691@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <200107011503.IAA17897@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes:
> : Did you folks consider that we went from 1 directory that violated
> : the read only /usr/src paradigm to 5 with this change....
> 
> Bummer.  No one complained when I posted to arch weeks ago.

From my complaint:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > There was a thread in hackers@ that suggested that someone put
> > together patches to move the compile area to sys/compile/MACHINE or
> > sys/MACHINE/compile.  I chose the latter since it is more orthogonal,
> > imho, and similar to how otherbsd has done it.  I generally reject the
> > former since it uglifies things, imho, and has less going for it.
> 
> I would prefer to use the canonical place in the object tree:
> 
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/${MACHINE}/conf
> 
> (with adjustments for the obj and src trees not being in the usual places).

Bruce


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