From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 25 17:27:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA13450 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linus.demon.co.uk (linus.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13395 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA08095; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:25:22 GMT Message-Id: <199606260125.BAA08095@linus.demon.co.uk> From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:25:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Jun 25, 4:54pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Nate Williams , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@sri.MT.net Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Nate Williams > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > As I understand it, the purpose of the obj stuff was to allow building > multiple architectures in one tree, and the symlink/'/usr/obj' was a way > to keep *all* of the build files in one area. However, you could use > obj directories just as easily (the previous version of bsd.obj.mk > allowed this, but this was removed). Nate's words reflect my understanding of the 4.4BSD build system precisely. Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home