Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:33:54 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: davidg@root.com, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260533.FAA10447@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Jun 25, 8:35pm
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> >...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) > > For what it's worth, I do too. Jordan proposed his solution to this several > days ago and I was and am all for it. None of us have any problems with fixing up the FreeBSD build system to make it possible to achieve Jordan's goals, and each of us is probably more than willing to lend a hand where practicable. We just disagree that breaking a major design feature of make(1) - a `third party' utility shared among BSD systems and ported to other systems so that thrird party applications can rely on its functionality - is the way to go about it. Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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