From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 18:31: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E268637BCE9; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA61641; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:30:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id TAA29645; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:30:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007140130.TAA29645@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Vivek Khera , Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:57:56 +0930." <20000714095756.B27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000714095756.B27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> <396DFA9E.4BD3D27F@cup.hp.com> <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> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:30:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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