From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 02:40:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA19590 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 02:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA19581 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 02:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA13627; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:43:50 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606221013.TAA13627@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Wanted: Testers for an alternate to /usr/obj (as we know it). To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:43:50 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606220619.AAA15830@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jun 22, 96 00:19:03 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > 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/'. The source tree is sacrosanct, so that would be src/ not obj/. > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[