From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 9 04:40:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA15932 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 04:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15841 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 04:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA27535; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:37:29 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199810091137.NAA27535@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: put elf obj tree directly underneath /usr/obj In-Reply-To: <199810090950.TAA15498@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Oct 9, 98 07:50:09 pm" To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:37:29 +0200 (SAT) Cc: luoqi@chen.ml.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (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. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message