Hmm...Ok I did test this on a r/o source dir and didn't have this issue at
all.

Lemme look some more. I'll back it out for now.

James

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>On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:06:02AM +0200, James Chacon wrote:
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>> Module Name:	sharesrc
>> Committed By:	jmc
>> Date:		Sun Nov 25 09:06:01 UTC 2001
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>> Modified Files:
>> 	sharesrc/share/mk: bsd.own.mk
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>> Log Message:
>> Before checking the value from PRINTOBJDIR force a make obj at $_SRC_TOP_OBJ_.
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>Thats not good.
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>Now, every action cause a mkdir, e.g.:
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>[root@arresum]/src/share/mk# make install
>making /home/work/obj_i386/src.i386/share/mk/obj.i386
>install  -c  -r  -o root  -g wheel  -m 444  /src/share/mk/bsd.README /usr/share/mk/bsd.README
>install  -c  -r  -o root  -g wheel  -m 444  /src/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk /usr/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk
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>Thats wrong and even more totaly broken if you have a read only source tree:
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>[root@arresum]/src/share/mk# make install
>/home/source/src/share/mk/obj.i386 -> /usr/obj/src.i386/share/mk
>ln: obj.i386: Read-only file system
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>A make install in src/share/mk should NOT create an obj dir.
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>Bernd
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