Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v17 19/19] osstest: use -DWITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ with FreeBSD release targets

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 03:09:47PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH v17 19/19] osstest: use -DWITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ 
> with FreeBSD release targets"):
> > Due to a recent FreeBSD change the default output directory of the release
> > targets is changed to the object directory instead of the source
> > directory. Use WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ to restore previous behavior. This is
> > harmless if used with previous versions, it will be ignored.
> 
> So the purpose of this is to make both versions of the build do the
> same thing, so osstest doesn't have to care ?
> 
> Is that why you're not just updating osstest to expect the new
> behaviour ?

Yes, I think it's more sensible to restore the previous behavior so
that the same osstest script can be used to build FreeBSD from the
master branch or the stable branches.

Roger.

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