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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:43:22 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
Subject:   Re: misc/44148: installworld in 4.7-STABLE does not installIPFilter related header files
Message-ID:  <20030425221643.X38215@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030425062247.GE32731@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030424192427.GA71112@sunbay.com> <200304250554.PAA03475@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <20030425062247.GE32731@sunbay.com>

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:54:32PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote:
> >
> > Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE
> > -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:18:45AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> > > > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote:
> > > > > In the SHARED=symlinks case, /usr/include/netinet is
> > > > > the symlink to /usr/src/sys/netinet.  Hope this now
> > > > > makes more sense.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any reason to not create a real /usr/include/netinet
> > > > and then populate _that_ directory with symbolic links to each
> > > > of the files, individually ?  This should preserve the semantics
> > > > of what "symlinks" is about.

Much as I dislike symlink farms, I think this would work OK (the same
as symlinks from individual headers in the top level of /usr/include to
various places in the src tree).

> > > We could create /usr/include/contrib/ipfilter/netinet, and
> > > that will be consistent with kern.pre.mk.  Those that need
> > > it would just add -I/usr/include/contrib/ipfilter.  How is
> > > this?

Doesn't seem any better.

Bruce



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