Re: my build issues

["Sarton O'Brien" <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 17:38:09 you wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Note that the examples at end of documentation doesn't mention
> > precreating obj directory. That should be done automatically too, like
> > src/obj.amd64 would be nice too.
>
> This issue keeps on coming up.  If anybody has a patch that will allow
> build.sh to reliably determine the name of the object directory
> and pre-create it, please post the patch.
>
> As always, my advice is to not rely on the complex rules that are used
> to choose the default obj directory.  Just pass a -O flag to build.sh.

Is this a problem because /usr/obj doesn't exist or because /usr/src/obj is a 
symlink to /usr/obj? Is it merely that people should ensure the symlink points 
somewhere useful?

I understand why it's a symlink but maybe it should be explained more clearly 
in the documentation, seeing as the /usr/src/obj symlink is created 
automatically, if someone doesn't provide that patch of course :) ... 
autocreation seems to make sense, based on the existence of that symlink.

Sarton