On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:51:00PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:23:02AM -0700, Dan Strick wrote:
> > I just spent a *very* frustrating hour trying to figure out why the
> > FreeBSD make program was invoking all commands to make things in a
> > subdirectory named "obj". I eventually discovered this gem in the
> > make man page:
> [snip]
> > .OBJDIR A path to the directory where the targets are built.
> [snip]
> > 1. ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/`pwd`
> > 2. ${MAKEOBJDIR}
> > 3. obj.${MACHINE}
> > 4. obj
> > 5. /usr/obj/`pwd`
> >
> > I believe this feature is a real botch because it is magic, unintuitive,
> > and so *exceedingly* easy to invoke by mistake.
>
> Actually, this feature lies at the base of the FreeBSD base system build
> infrastructure, and it is pretty much The Feature that allows us to
> build from read-only and/or NFS-mounted sources shared among wide swarms
> of machines :)Oh, and let's not forget cross-platform builds, too. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If I had finished this sentence,
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