From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 23 14:18:19 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA16390 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:18:19 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA16354; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:18:05 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA11101; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:17:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:17:31 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502232217.AA11101@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE In-Reply-To: <15359.793507347@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <9502230051.AA09330@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <15359.793507347@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Any program which is "part" of FreeBSD should be compiled "inside" the > source tree, period. Sure, it may work for some things to be compiled > in any old location but certainly not everything, and if it's not > guaranteed to be deterministic then it should be discouraged. Period. I very strongly disagree, and I think the work necessary to make in-tree-reference compiles work should, if done right, come close to making this work all the time. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant