Re: What is BSD make?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <87od1nrl3q.fsf%inbox.ru@localhost>, Aleksej Saushev  
<asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
>Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> writes:
>
>_Unset_ MAKEOBJDIR.  See how it breaks, if you create "obj" subdirectory
>in one of project subdirectories, and not in another.
>
>Setting MAKEOBJDIR is impossible, if you have files with same names
>across the project. Build stomps on itself, when you build the whole
>project. Setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is very inconvenient, when you have
>a bunch of programs rather than a single one. In regular development
>almost noone uses it in such case.

Actually if you want make to forget about object directories just
export MAKEOBJDIR=/does/not/exist

christos