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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:37:29 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell)
Cc:        luoqi@chen.ml.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj
Message-ID:  <199810091137.NAA27535@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Oct 9, 98 07:50:09 pm"

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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.

Ok, what about making MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/elf the default on elf
systems then? Then it can stay like that for ever.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za

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