From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 12 18:58:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17386 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17376 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:58:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25510; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:58:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd025491; Mon Jan 12 19:58:26 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA18098; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:58:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801130258.TAA18098@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Architecture dependent source To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 02:58:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801122015.SAA17293@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Jan 12, 98 06:15:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > // Personally, I don't see that '/sys/arch' buys us anything other than > // 'Yet Another directory'. Especially when there is no goal of having > // every architecture under the sun working. > > It has the advantage of isolating architectures from other stuff. > A ls in the arch dir shows all architectures, and nothing else. > > I'm not sure, but think it's mostly cosmetic though. Hypothetically, what happens when you: cd /usr/src/include make install Specifically, /usr/include/sys, /usr/include/machine, /usr/include/ufs. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.