From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 14:26:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA19483 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:26:32 -0800 Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA19471 ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:26:22 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA07845; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:25:23 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:25:23 -0600 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: "Make" way Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, core@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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