From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 13:56:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03309 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03300; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA18730; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:52:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610092052.NAA18730@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: .depend To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:52:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: wosch@freebsd.org, steve@freefall.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Oct 9, 96 10:34:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > IMHO, this entire discussion results from a fundamental error in the > methodology of building multiple versions from a single set of sources. > Rather than "kluge" something else into "make" so you can "get by", we > should fix the methodology. What happens when I want to build several different machine architectures from the same NFS mounted sources instead of placing 3 times the SUP load on one of the severs to get thrre times the trees on three times the local diskk space used? Building multiple versions from a single set of sources is a requirement, IMO. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.