[818] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Most make changes reverted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 26 04:05:00 1995
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 04:04:42 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[817] in NetBSD-Development"
> - Modify "make obj" to work without write access to
> the source tree (just creating directories under
> /usr/obj), or provide a separate target that does
> that part of the job. This is probably preferrable
> to the first option.
I modifief the .mk files to provide a "make objdir" for this purpose.
> * Users still can't build a kernel out of the source tree. My
> plan is to make /usr/src/sys/arch/<foo>/compile be a symlink
> to /usr/obj/sys/arch/<foo>/compile, and modify the Makefiles
> in arch/<foo>/conf to look for the source tree top in
> ${BSDSRCDIR}/sys.
I did this for arch/i386 only, to see if we like how it works out.
Users will still have to find a place for their kernel configuration
files, of course, until working union mounts make this all obsolete..
