From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 9 02:47:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00234 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00206 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA15498; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:50:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj In-Reply-To: <199810090854.EAA24980@chen.ml.org> from Luoqi Chen at "Oct 9, 98 04:54:26 am" To: luoqi@chen.ml.org (Luoqi Chen) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:50:09 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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