From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 13:29:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25271 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25266 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA16403; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:26:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:26:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: John Birrell cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: different E-problem In-Reply-To: <199808311242.WAA20332@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote: > The object directory gets set to ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/${OBJFORMAT} in > Makefile.inc0. The upgrade sets ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/aout or > ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/elf explicitly depending on which bit it is doing. > > It is the OBJLINK that shouldn't be used. It writes in the source > directory. So there is no way to get the obj softlinks? I liked them for troubleshooting. That was the only thing I wanted extra in my source tree, but I did want them ... they're obsolete? > > If you use make world or make buildworld, the object directories > will be created for you based on your preferred MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. > However, you should be warned that MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX only works > properly if set in the environment, not in /etc/make.conf. There > are existing comments in bsd.obj.mk to this effect. > > The problem with putting things in /etc/make.conf is that you are > overriding things that the build procedure has set for good reason. > Since the settings in /etc/make.conf are absolute ( = , not ?= ), > and /etc/make.conf is included near the bottom of sys.mk, they > always win. 8-( > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message