In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Warner
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