From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 19:35:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F180737B40C for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D2843FE1 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id AF0C5530F; Fri, 23 May 2003 04:35:28 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <20030523015453.GF92953@nitro.dk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 04:35:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030523015453.GF92953@nitro.dk> (Simon L. Nielsen's message of "Fri, 23 May 2003 03:54:54 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doc build with .OBJDIR X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:35:34 -0000 "Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > I think the correct solution is to use .PATH in the makefiles. This way > fewer special hacks should be needed. I have been trying to get this to > work and it works for most of doc/ but some special cases still fail. No, the correct solution is to not use ${.OBJDIR}, since in most cases the current directory is the one you want; unfortunately there is a lot of precedent for using ${.OBJDIR} all over the tree (both src and doc). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org