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

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