Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:20:57 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260520.FAA10413@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25, 8:26pm
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > > Have you tried it? :-) > > > > $ cd ~/tmp > > $ mkdir src i386 i386/obj > > Uh, that's supposed to work automatically though. You shouldn't need > to know your architecture. Sure, it'll *use* the symlink (and I do > know since I looked at the code that implements this! :-) but there > was no infrastructure for creating the architecture specific links and > if it's not done transparently then it's not much use (at least not > unless you *like* answering user questions :-). This is a rather confused response. Please think beyond /usr/src and /usr/share/mk; pmake is used for far more than that, and breaking it will break third party application build systems. Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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