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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: different E-problem
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>> My view is that it is easy to learn what obj path your system is using,
>> it's just not convienient to cd there compared to `cd obj'.
>
>cd /usr/obj$(/bin/pwd)
>
>usually works.

cd `make whereobj` works better.

The problems are changing back, and working on sources while you are
cd'ed to the obj directory.  Shells usually handle links nicely so that
cd .. works.  Sources are even harder to find if they are in contrib.

Bruce

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