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- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: split source and object directories
- Message-ID: <PHL0W8W@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <als.726304707@marloo.kowari.cpsg.com.au> <BAS.93Jan6135242@carlo.phys.uva.nl> <als.726371259@marloo.kowari.cpsg.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:36:10 GMT
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- als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:
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- >bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) writes:
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- >>>>>>> In article <als.726304707@marloo.kowari.cpsg.com.au>, als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:
-
- >>as> When a site has heterogeneous workstations and one central NFS
- >>as> server holding source it would be very useful if the makefiles
- >>as> supported separate source and object directories.
-
- >Others have mailed me saying that I could just create a whole heap of symbolic
- >links in the object directory to the source directory. This of course requires
- >that symbolic links be available on all machines.
-
- Or even better: symbolic links which may contain embedded environment
- variables. This feature of DomainOS was really great to use. You could
- simply link something like "${MACHINE}/obj" or "$HOME/objects/$MACHINE"
- to the directory name addressed by your configuration and that's it.
- But - alas! - Unix will ever remain a hacker system - no sign of
- easy and systematic solutions.
-
- Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
-