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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:57:56 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, "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:  <20000714095756.B27141@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007131952.NAA26585@harmony.village.org>
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On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 13:52:10 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
>> 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.
>
> Yes.  We used to do the obj symbolic link a long time ago.  It was a
> really bad idea and caused us all kinds of grief.

Care to elaborate?

Greg
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