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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:25:23 -0600
From:      rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, core@freebsd.org
Subject:   "Make" way
Message-ID:  <v02130504acbef39801b3@[199.183.109.242]>

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Anyone interested in this subject should look to "hackers". I'm diverting
all continuing threads there.

At 3:15 PM 11/2/95, J Wunsch wrote:
>As Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>>
>> Yes to all of the above. The implication is that you cannot look only in a
>> fixed location for anything. If fact, the "fixed location" is just a
>> convenient shortcut for the general case.
>
>If you see it this way, i agree.  If you're going to make the shortcut
>impossible,

No, the short cut should be the default if you do not set up a "safe"
environment.

> and force everyone to have twice the disk space instead
>(once for the stable system, once for the newly-built tools that are
>required to complete the build process), i would certainly object.

Actually, you need THREE copies.

The production system
The cross-build tools
and
The target code

If you KNOW that the target and the production system are the same, you can
do some folding. However, because it is generally unsafe, that should not
be the default case.

----
Richard Wackerbarth
rkw@dataplex.net





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