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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:08:06 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: TRUE and FALSE
Message-ID:  <199502230008.RAA16127@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> "Re: TRUE and FALSE" (Feb 22,  3:47pm)

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> > At what gain are we doing this?  I believe it's a noble gain to have the
> > source tree compile w/out reference to /usr/include, but what does it
> > gain us?  The only thing I can see where it's a big deal is building a
> > brand-new $(DESTDIR) tree.  Other than that, most of the time I *want*
> > to use the files in /usr/include and NOT those in /usr/src (speaking as
> > a user-land kind of guy).
> 
> "The only thing..."
> 
> You are elected to release eng for 2.2 if you want to ... :-)

chroot is your friend. ;)

I did a bit of this when FreeBSD was barely alive at MSU, and I wouldn't want
to do it again, but with CVS and a chroot tree I was able to build a DESTDIR
tree pretty well which only relied on the stuff inside that tree.

If you are *really* interesteed in how I did it, send me private email
and we'll talk.  Note, this was only part of the release engr. task, but
a significant one.


Nate




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