Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:30:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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: <200007140130.TAA29645@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:57:56 %2B0930." <20000714095756.B27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000714095756.B27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> <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> <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> <200007131952.NAA26585@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20000714095756.B27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : > 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? Yes. It make it impossible to build tree off a cdrom (since you had to create the obj links). One couldn't build the same tree with multiple architectures as well, which is trivial to do today with MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. There were other problems too with stale links and the like, but it has been so long that I've forgotten them. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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