From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 10:34:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA21062 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21050 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA16449; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:34:17 -0600 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:34:17 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199606221734.LAA16449@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: Testers for an alternate to /usr/obj (as we know it). In-Reply-To: <24850.835424700@time.cdrom.com> References: <199606220619.AAA15830@rocky.sri.MT.net> <24850.835424700@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > 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. > In any case, I'd really rather not put the symlinks back as there's > too much code which would have to be "dual headed" to deal with > either possibility and it'd be just too gross. Umm, why would it be any different? The symlink would be for the user only. The make system wouldn't even be aware of it's existance. Again, this is for *me* to be able to see the contents of the obj directory easily. Nate