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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