On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> >
>> > sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile?
>>
>> Sure, fine. I don't really care which, I just would like the problem solved
>> somehow. :)
>
> I seem to recall that the 2 or 3 times I've brought this up over the last 3-4
> years either Bruce or Peter or both said No!, but my memory could be playing
> me false.
>
> What *I* do is NFS mount my test source from a common machine, but then nfs
> loopback mount the compile directory for each machine. I'd use a nullfs mount
> if that worked.
>
> This has the feature of avoiding the multiplatform foo (mostly- it's been
> known to break over the last year or so), and also to get more reasonable
> compile performance.
The thing I like though is that when my test box hangs, I have the kernel.debug
still accessible so I can pull up remote gdb on the machine. Hence the desire
to share sys/compile over NFS as well.
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