Re: What does the "WRKOBJDIR" variable do?

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 04:33:49PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Assuming "WRKOBJDIR=/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj" and pkgsrc tree is
> writeable, then "/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj/mail/spamassassin/work/"
> will be a symbolic link to "/path/to/pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin/work/"
> eh? So if pkgsrc is writeable, then there's no real advantage of
> setting WRKOBJDIR ...

There is.  E.g. my /tmp filesystem is on tmpfs (NetBSD-current) and I
have WRKOBJDIR=/tmp/work, which is much more efficient.  

        Geert