Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:09:37 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj Message-ID: <l03130301b2439e572b1c@[208.2.87.5]> In-Reply-To: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au> References: <199810090854.EAA24980@chen.ml.org> from Luoqi Chen at "Oct 9, 98 04:54:26 am"
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At 4:50 AM -0500 10/9/98, John Birrell wrote: >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. Or, alternately, why not allow a target that "cleans out the legacy pitfalls" by "rm -f /usr/obj/*" and installs a "cookie" in /etc/objformat to define the elf object root. In the master Makefile, you would add /usr/obj/elf/ as the default case. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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