From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 6 06:21:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA20782 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 06:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA20771 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 06:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA05690 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:21:24 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17417; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:07:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970406150753.SQ24384@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:07:53 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation References: <19970406114210.NQ47928@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970406122832.5270.qmail@suburbia.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970406122832.5270.qmail@suburbia.net>; from proff@suburbia.net on Apr 6, 1997 22:28:32 +1000 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As proff@suburbia.net wrote: > I don't see that outside references are a problem, provided the > user is kept aware of them. That's probably the best solution to handle src/contrib code for kernel-land, yes. But it makes packaging the distributions harder. Right now, it's sufficient to install the `ssys' distribution if you wanna rebuild your kernel. If we simply reference through ../../contrib in sys/conf/files, this will require the luser to install the entire contrib distribution bloat as it stands now. So this obviously needs a little more thoughts, and i hoped to get some thoughts from those people who were actually _asking_ for ipfilter. Well, that's certainly not me, i don't have any opportunity to use it. My only concern was as the 2.2 release engineer, to possibly get it into 2.2, but that's too late. > The kernel does depend on some outside > references i.e /usr/include... It only relies on /usr/include in order to compile an auxiliary binary, not to compile the kernel itself. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)