From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 01:06:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09302 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09295 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02942; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:04:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:04:54 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell cc: Chuck Robey , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: different E-problem In-Reply-To: <199808312050.GAA21946@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > So there is no way to get the obj softlinks? I liked them for > > troubleshooting. That was the only thing I wanted extra in my source > > tree, but I did want them ... they're obsolete? > > I can't figure out how to support them and keep aout and elf bits > separate. In an elf only world, you would have the same problem if > you wanted to cross-build alpha on i386, for example. > > My view is that it is easy to learn what obj path your system is using, > it's just not convienient to cd there compared to `cd obj'. I always just type 'make objlink' whenever I need them. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message