From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 11 13:51:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23211 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles253.castles.com [208.214.165.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23204; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07650; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902112143.NAA07650@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Curt Sampson cc: Matthew Jacob , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with dhclient builds for shared src? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:34:57 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:43:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Umm- I have a /usr/src shared by an alpha && an i386. The alpha build > > falls over because there are a bunch of i386 binaries in sbin/dhclient- > > isn't it supposed to work that all binaries are off in /usr/obj? > > It sure is. Check that you have an obj.alpha symlink in src/sbin/dhclient, > and that it actually links to a real directory (one that's not been > removed). Without this, the build system will simply silently dump > them wherever it can. (This is one of the main reasons I really, > really dislike the idea of obj directories, and would rather have > builds start from the directory containing object files, rather > than the directory containing source files.) Er, we don't use obj symlinks; the object directory is implicit. It sounds like Matt tried to build without an object directory on the i386, and as you say, ended up with objects in the source directory. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message