From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 22 11:14:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFBE37B403 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5MIEEI72844; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010622105917.N20923-100000@wonky.feral.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:22:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: >> > >> > sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile? >> >> Sure, fine. I don't really care which, I just would like the problem solved >> somehow. :) > > I seem to recall that the 2 or 3 times I've brought this up over the last 3-4 > years either Bruce or Peter or both said No!, but my memory could be playing > me false. > > What *I* do is NFS mount my test source from a common machine, but then nfs > loopback mount the compile directory for each machine. I'd use a nullfs mount > if that worked. > > This has the feature of avoiding the multiplatform foo (mostly- it's been > known to break over the last year or so), and also to get more reasonable > compile performance. The thing I like though is that when my test box hangs, I have the kernel.debug still accessible so I can pull up remote gdb on the machine. Hence the desire to share sys/compile over NFS as well. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message