From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 9 04:26:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14511 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 04:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA14506 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 04:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@Dataplex.NET) Received: from [208.2.87.5] (user5.dataplex.net [208.2.87.5]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA13396; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:26:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: 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" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:09:37 -0500 To: John Birrell From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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