On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:00:59PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > > > Sorry, I don't think this makes sense. I always start with doing a > > > make obj. It's way too easy to mess things things up if you forget to > > > do that step, so running anything in my source tree without doing make > > > obj first makes me very nervous. > > > > > > Does changing the order actually fix something? > > > > the idea is you make distrib-dirs before make obj. make obj will fail if > > you are missing dirs, > > really? obj dirs are for source building, distrib dirs are where the > resulting files go. I don't think 'make obj' will fail without > 'make distrib-dirs' first, but perhaps 'make build' will. or do > you have a specific example? >
no, it's me getting confused. the point of the diff was that running "make distrib-dirs" will create /usr/obj if one does not exist. it seemed more logical therefore to run that before doing the make obj stuff. jmc
