From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 25 21:40:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA04718 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 21:40:39 -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 VAA04686 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 21:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA10447; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:33:54 GMT Message-Id: <199606260533.FAA10447@linus.demon.co.uk> From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:33:54 +0000 In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Jun 25, 8:35pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: davidg@root.com, Michael Smith Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >...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