Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:50:09 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: luoqi@chen.ml.org (Luoqi Chen) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj Message-ID: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199810090854.EAA24980@chen.ml.org> from Luoqi Chen at "Oct 9, 98 04:54:26 am"
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Luoqi Chen wrote: > It's been quite inconvenient ever since the build object tree was relocated to > /usr/obj/elf. Everytime I make a small change to an application program, I have > to rebuild it with "MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/elf make". Is there any reason > why the elf object tree has to be in a subdirectory of /usr/obj? Can we simply > place the elf object tree in /usr/obj and aout object tree in /usr/obj/aout? Only when we've left it long enough for people not to mix previous aout builds that might be lingering in /usr/obj with elf ones. We should only do this when we no longer support aout. Work is still required to get to that point. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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