Hi folks, I have a proposal regarding the OBJLINK option; let's drop it.
Currently, OBJLINK breaks world when NOAOUT is undefined -- that is, for the legacy build. This is because making the objlink target for aout libraries blows away the existing objlinks that have already been created for building ELF libraries. The result is that a.out libraries are installed where ELF libraries should be, and their ELF counterparts aren't installed at all. I've spoken to some folks who've been around a while (my FreeBSD mentor and a colleague who's into NetBSD) and have an understanding of why the objlink functionality exists... hysterical raisins only. It was once useful, since there was a time when the only way to have make build on some filesystem other than the one containing the source was to use cross-device symlinks. Those days are long gone. The ports mechanism has its own way of handling this (WRKDIRPREFIX) and so does the base source tree (MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX). So OBJLINK is simply tautologous. If it were simply tautologous, there'd be no reason to remove it. But since it's blowing up in people's faces (two PR's at least) and since we have "a better way" that _doesn't_ blow up, I vote to retire the beast. Diffs to do just this are attached to PR misc/8071. I've tested the diffs through a buildworld+installworld, but would appreciated feedback on a release build. Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
