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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src?
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, nate@sri.MT.net
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>> The builtin knowledge of /usr/obj is worse than the builtin knowledge of
>> ./obj, and MAKEOBJDIR useless becase the full path to the current directory
>> is appended to it.

>P.S. I still don't see how this makes it useless at all - this is how
>it *should* work!

Because the default object directory for joe user running make in
/home/joe/src/prog is /usr/obj/home/joe/src/prog.

Bruce