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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Testers for an alternate to /usr/obj (as we know it).
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[ Description of what appears to be good cleanups of the obj stuff ]

> some truly gross sed hackery before).  None of the existing
> functionality of /usr/obj has been lost.
> 
> The obj target now basically does nothing more than create ${.OBJDIR}
> and the cleandir target blows it away again if it exists.  In all
> scenarios, if ${.OBJDIR} does not exist then everything happens
> transparently in ${.CURDIR} instead.

I know this sounds weird, but would it be possible to set an environment
variable to *also* create the symlinks.  Often-times things will blow up
on me due to old dependencies, and it's nice to be able to do a 'rm
obj/.depend'.  If I understand the current system I'd have to bounce
around in the FS to get to the directory to blow things away.

It's also nice to be able to look at the obj link and see what the
'state' of things is, ie; 'ls obj/'.


Nate