Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 15:05:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: Testers for an alternate to /usr/obj (as we know it). Message-ID: <199606230535.PAA15839@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199606221401.QAA05748@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Jun 22, 96 04:01:43 pm
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Wolfram Schneider stands accused of saying: > > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >In case you ISPs out there haven't twigged to the significance of this > >yet either, with these changes you can now keep a single copy of > >/usr/src up to date for any number of machines, having simultaneous > >`make worlds' run from a single NFS mounted source partition on > >multiple clients with none of the mutual interferance problems we have > >now. That's why *I* wanted this feature, anyway! :-) > > Jordan, > > this already works with the current bsd.obj.mk ;-)))) It does _not_, because you have to _write_ to the source tree to _make_ the symlinks in the first place. Write this with a green magic marker on the back of your head : READ-ONLY SOURCE TREE > Wolfram -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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