Re: [PATCH] Unify OUTPATH values

On 29/05/12 22:26, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 21:37 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > On 29/05/12 21:21, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > > One could even have only one checkout and natively compile all platforms
> > > from it, which was how it was done in Sun Hamburg labs.
> >
> > unfortunately that only worked with setsolar, not with configure based
> > builds, because the names of the set_soenv shell output files collided.
> > then i actually fixed that in CWS gnumake4, but now we have a single
> > config_host.mk again :)  well i don't currently build different
> > platforms over NFS so who cares...
>
> I used to build all the weird-ass ports locally over nfs on a shared
> source tree but gave up with the various changes that broke that. Anyway
> disk space is so relatively insanely cheap now that the space saving
> side of things doesn't matter much.

it was not at all about the space savings (during my time anyway), but
only about the convenience of managing only 1 repo/working copy.

> There even used to be a common[.pro]
> output dir at one stage for arch independent output so slower arches
> could skip building those (?) but that went away years ago I think.

actually while it wasn't used in configure for many years, iirc it only
went away in setsolar with the gbuild migration, because we refused to
support common trees, with the inherent race conditions and over-writes
when building concurrently on different platforms they never worked
properly anyway.