From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 25 20:16:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29245 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29240 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:16:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA02742; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:28:55 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606260258.MAA02742@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:28:54 +0930 (CST) Cc: mark@linus.demon.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, nate@sri.MT.net In-Reply-To: <15745.835755356@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 25, 96 07:15:56 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > What, even without /home/joe/src/obj? How about if joe had: > > > > /home/joe/src/obj.i386 -> /home/joe/i386/obj > > /home/joe/src/obj.sparc -> /home/joe/sparc/obj > > That never worked. :-) ...entirely aside from the fact that there isn't an existing toolchain that will let you do it anyway. And I don't see any sparc code in the FreeBSD tree, but I too have fielded questions about building from read-only source distributions. I for one _like_ the direction you're headed 8) If the tree is mounted on machines with native toolchains, then you have MAKEOBJDIR set seperately for each of them, or you specify it on the make commandline. I can't for the life of me see what people are whining about 8( > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[