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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:21:34 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer  kernels
Message-ID:  <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007092043510.33246-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000711103710.B21954@wantadilla.lemis.com> <396ADB61.5736BF19@newsguy.com> <20000711182903.K23115@wantadilla.lemis.com> <396C57FD.F73C1942@newsguy.com> <20000713092049.C3907@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, 12 July 2000 at 20:35:25 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> Yes.  We could agree to change the tree to /usr/obj, but it should be
> >> consistent whichever way you do it.  In the process we should also use
> >> obj symlinks like other BSDs use:
> >>
> >> === grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttyp5) ~ 1 -> cd /src/OpenBSD/src/sbin/fsck
> >> === grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttyp5) /src/OpenBSD/src/sbin/fsck 2 -> l
> >> total 1
> >> drwxr-xr-x  2 grog  lemis    512 Apr 17  1999 CVS
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis    171 Sep 22  1997 Makefile
> >> -r--r--r--  1 grog  lemis    421 Apr 18  1999 TRANS.TBL
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis   3616 Mar 25  1999 fsck.8
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis  10548 Feb 28  1997 fsck.c
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis   6034 Sep  9  1997 fsutil.c
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis   2714 Oct 20  1996 fsutil.h
> >> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     18 May 28 20:20 obj -> /usr/obj/sbin/fsck
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis   1857 Oct 20  1996 pathnames.h
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 grog  lemis   8734 Mar 25  1999 preen.c
> >
> > Oh, I *like* that! But it prevents one from using RO /usr/src.
> 
> Not at all.  It's an absolute symlink outside /usr/src.

Without an architecture prefix/postfix/directory somewhere in the path,
this prevents concurrent cross-builds.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
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