Re: split source and object directories

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From: Thomas Wolff
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:36

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als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:

>bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) writes:

>>>>>>> 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

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