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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:43:15 -0700
From: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..
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In-Reply-To: <20010622104940.P20923-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:50:00AM -0700
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:50:00AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Why can't we do it like NetBSD and have
> 
> sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile?

It makes it harder to make src/sys/compile a single simple symlink to
writable storage.

Our /sys layout is suffiently different from NetBSD, I don't think there
is any benefit from following them (nad it would be
sys/arch/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile anyway).

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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