Add advice about avoiding common pitfalls.
This is taken from the patch in PR 48741, by David H. Gutteridge, but I made small changes to wording and markup.
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.\" $NetBSD: BUILDING.mdoc,v 1.103 2014/08/07 21:32:11 apb Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: BUILDING.mdoc,v 1.104 2014/08/07 21:45:27 apb Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2011 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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@ -1817,6 +1817,26 @@ Relying on this default is not recommended because
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it is determined by complex rules that are influenced
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by the values of several variables and
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by the location of the source directory.
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.Pp
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Note that placing the
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.Ar obj
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directory location outside of the default source tree hierarchy makes
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it easier to manually clear out old files in the event the
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.Dq make cleandir
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operation is unable to do so.
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(See
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.Sx CAVEATS
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below.)
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.Pp
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Note also that use of one of
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.Fl M
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or
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.Fl O
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is the only means of building multiple machine architecture userlands
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from the same source tree without cleaning between builds (in which
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case, one would specify distinct
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.Ar obj
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locations for each).
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.It Fl o
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Set the value of
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.Sy MKOBJDIRS
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@ -2048,3 +2068,15 @@ as
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and re-worked to
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.Sy TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
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after that.
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.
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.Sh CAVEATS
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.
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After significant updates to third-party components in the source
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tree, the
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.Dq make cleandir
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operation may be insufficient to clean out old files in object
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directories.
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Instead, one may have to manually remove the files.
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Consult the
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.Pa UPDATING
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file for notices concerning this.
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