Subject: Re: Problem with make obj
To: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/27/2001 17:52:28
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:34:51PM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
> Basically it'll only create dirs and not symlinks if it beleives it's not
> inside of BSDSRCDIR. That's where symlinks, amd mounts, etc can confuse
> things.

Yes, I've fallen foul of that in the past. I always use full paths for
BSDSRCDIR and BSDOBJDIR now. I haven't changed my BSDSRCDIR and BSDOBJDIR for
a long time now, and this has been working up until the end of last week.

> I you actually wanna see what it's testing remove the leading @ from the
> make obj rule near the bottom of bsd.obj.mk

That's a handy tip - I'll try that tonight and see what happens.

Ian.