Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:26:40 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041619500.15726-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20000702130736.D66762@holly.calldei.com>
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Chris Costello wrote:
> On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Actually the whole src/sys/compile thing should go away, it is
> > one of the last things that has to be dealt with for a totally
> > read-only mounted /usr/src. IMHO it should be moved to /usr/obj,
> > and /usr/obj should, if it hasn't already, be enhanced to include
> > a ${MACHINE_ARCH} component.
>
> It does already, but how do you propose the user build and
> install the kernel? ``cd /usr/obj ...'' is inconsistent with any
> current procedures.
`cd /sys/${MACHINE}/conf; make FOO' should make configuration FOO.
(For the current build scheme to work, there would have to be a
subdirectory of /sys/${MACHINE}/conf for each configuration file.
I don't like the tiny directories required for this.)
${MACHINE_ARCH} would be wrong here. pc98 != i386.
Bruce
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