"Valeriy E. Ushakov" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 23:38:08 -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> > "-O" is historical, and it's also the default. "-M" leaves you a
> > completely clean source tree, no "obj*" directory or symlink
> > whatsoever. If BSDSRCDIR is in "/usr/src", and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is
> > "/usr/obj", an entire tree of directories will be created under
> > "/usr/obj/usr/src".
> 
> Using -O for build.sh will NOT create any obj symlinks in the source
> tree, you can run build.sh -O over a read-only tree just fine.
> 
OK, I see that I'm not the only one that is slightly confused ;-)
Things are getting better and better....


Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:16:13AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > Hmmm. Does this mean that multiple, concurrent builds to different
> > target architectures are possible?
> 
> Yes.
> 
Is there consensus that -O is for folks building a single machine 
"platform" target, and -M is for building multiple targets? 

(That's the kind of information that would be nice to have in the 
documentation....)
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