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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: .depend
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:39:46 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199610100144.LAA16453@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 10, 96 11:14:29 am
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> > > IMHO, this entire discussion results from a fundamental error in the
> > > methodology of building multiple versions from a single set of sources.
> > > Rather than "kluge" something else into "make" so you can "get by", we
> > > should fix the methodology.
> > 
> > What happens when I want to build several different machine architectures
> > from the same NFS mounted sources instead of placing 3 times the SUP
> > load on one of the severs to get thrre times the trees on three times
> > the local diskk space used?
> 
> .depend is in the object directory.  Unless you're a total loser, you
> _will_ have seperate object directories, right?

That ".depends".

If I not a total loser doing a port to a new architecture, I won't have
local disk drivers and I'll be running over NFS to a remote object directory.

Typically, I find I have just enough space on a given build machine for
the foreign object directory -- in the local object directory (funny
how that works out).

So for supporting multiple machine architectures, especially for build
and install testing on a 100M SCSI ZIP drive that you cart around from
box to box, expect me to use the same object directory on my build host.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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