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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jdp@polstra.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: OBJLINK=yes breaks make buildworld
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>> I don't have a fix.  I never use OBJLINK.  As far as I'm concerned, a
>> suitable fix would be to eliminate that option altogether.
>
>As far as I'm concerned, and speaking as the author of that hack,
>I agree with you! :-)  Kill it.  Kill it dead.

I use it a lot for working in individual directories.  It shouldn't be
killed until the separate object tree is killed.  `make's search path
should be set on the command line (default ".") so that obj subdirectories,
obj links, and /usr/obj/ can be ignored.

Bruce

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