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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. 
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>There are problems with this too, unfortunately.  The essential
>problem is the obj dir, bane of our existance and utter hack into make
>(did you know that bmake has inbuilt knowledge of the obj directory
>and how to use it? Yuck!  Talk about a policy layering violation).

Jordan,

we have bsd.obj.mk, obtained from NetBSD (with bugfixes of course). 
bsd.obj.mk know what bmake do with the obj directory.
Unfortunately I had not the time to integrate bsd.obj.mk into
bsd.prog.mk.

Do you want break compatibility with NetBSD?

Wolfram