Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:36:51 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, mark@linus.demon.co.uk, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <27225.835907811@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:12:55 %2B1000." <199606271012.UAA05121@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> (tree) variable if make knows nothing about object trees. The reason > for putting this knowledge in make is that builtins are easier to use. > Getting the current behaviour using the old MAKEOBJDIR semantics would > involve lots of substitutions: Yes. I actually tried this yesterday in an attempt to placate folks and, after about an hour, gave up due to the fact that it was about 5 times twistier and obfuscated than what we had before! :-) > Hmm, this isn't very hard. Put this in bsd.src.mk (a new file that > centralizes common stuff for building /usr/src) and avoid touching make(1) > or *.mk. Why did the old way use all those shell commands with pwd's? :-) It sounds like you've already got a grand architecture in your head here, so go for it Bruce! I'm behind you all the way! :-) Jordan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?27225.835907811>