From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 2 13: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEC737B575; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from yahoo-inc.com (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA77825; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@yahoo-inc.com) Message-ID: <395FA06A.6ED2CEF5@yahoo-inc.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:04:58 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0629 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: chris@calldei.com, John Baldwin , wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Will Andrews , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy References: <200007021842.LAA10685@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Actually the whole src/sys/compile thing should go away, it is > > > one of the last things that has to be dealt with for a totally > > > read-only mounted /usr/src. IMHO it should be moved to /usr/obj, > > > and /usr/obj should, if it hasn't already, be enhanced to include > > > a ${MACHINE_ARCH} component. > > > > It does already, but how do you propose the user build and > > install the kernel? ``cd /usr/obj ...'' is inconsistent with any > > current procedures. > > Just the argument to the cd has changed, the command sequence is > still: > cd blah > make depend && make && make install. If we're going to do this (and I'm all for anything that improves the read-onliness of /usr/src) I suggest that we can hide all of the pain of changing the process behind popularizing the buildkernel and installkernel targets. Thus, when someone wants to paint the bikeshed yellow in a few years the users won't have to be re-re-educated. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message