From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 10:08:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19088 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19076 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id SAA19295; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:07:01 +0100 (BST) To: Andreas Klemm cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Wanted: Testers for an alternate to /usr/obj (as we know it). In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:07:31 +0200." Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:06:59 +0100 Message-ID: <19293.835463219@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andreas Klemm wrote in message ID : > On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Well, I sat down this morning with the intention that /usr/obj change > > its spots before sundown and it looks like I made it with time to > > spare. > > Do your changes make now or in future possible, to compile the > source tree totally independend from the files in /usr/include > and /usr/share/mk and such, that would allow to compile every > wanted OS Release independently from what is installed in the system.. You really need FULL independance from the installed system, as make world currently spams new compilers and libraries over the system before doing anything else. I consider this a bug, or at least a mis-feature. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info