From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Aug 25 15:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683ED37B405 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7PMK2Z43522; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108252220.f7PMK2Z43522@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: docs/29740: [PATCH] Setting WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj is a bad idea, but not commented Reply-To: Dima Dorfman Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/29740; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman To: "Peter Avalos" Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/29740: [PATCH] Setting WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj is a bad idea, but not commented Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:14:31 -0700 "Peter Avalos" writes: > > It seems wrong to tell someone not to do something and not > > provide an explanation. > > I was thinking the same thing, but I honestly don't know why this > confuses make so much. Perhaps someone who can explain this would > like to submit a better patch. It sounds like this is a bug in make(1) that should be fixed (when I first read the PR, I thought this was a documented `feature' of some sorts). Perhaps you (or whoever was having this problem) could file a PR against that with some analysis, and/or at least the simplest test case? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message