From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 2 12:31:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4361A37BE42; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01627; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:31:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA68723; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:31:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007021931.NAA68723@harmony.village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Cc: chris@calldei.com, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin), wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 11:42:14 PDT." <200007021842.LAA10685@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200007021842.LAA10685@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:31:28 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200007021842.LAA10685@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : Just the argument to the cd has changed, the command sequence is : still: : cd blah : make depend && make && make install. : : cd blah is currently : cd ../../compile/${KERNNAME} : it becomes : cd /usr/obj/`pwd`/${KERNNAME} : : config(8) will need to produce a better makefile using `pwd` to : figure out the path to the kernel sources. BDE probably has lots : of tips about how to do this. My take on this is that it would make it slightly harder to develop kernel stuff in the tree. I don't like that prospect, and I think this would impose some hardship on third parties that are using FreeBSD. If it could be turned off, that would be ideal. It ties the userland and kernel together too tightly, imho. For the average buildworld, it might not be bad, however. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message