From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 10 08:08:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA12856 for current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12847 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA11944; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:06:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:06:41 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9606101506.AA11944@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Minor nit in build process plus fix In-Reply-To: <199606100252.TAA02819@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199606100134.LAA23798@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199606100252.TAA02819@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I was thinking in terms of the top level make setting an environment > variable. The problem is really "..", not "paths relative to the > build root". This presupposes that there /is/ a ``top level make''. When I'm rebuilding `w', I don't start from /usr/src, I start from /usr/src/usr.bin/w (or, on my distribution-building box, from /usr/releng/src/usr.bin/w). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant