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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 1995 19:34:15 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: config, other kernel build tools
Message-ID:  <199511100234.TAA02562@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511100013.TAA04056@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us> from "Allen Briggs" at Nov 9, 95 07:13:47 pm

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> > Anyone else believe config should be in the /usr/src/sys somewhere
> > instead of /usr/src/usr.sbin?
> 
> Why?  Does it still have machine-dependencies in it?  I highly recommend
> the much more machine-independent 'config' that NetBSD is now using.
> Or at least something similar.

Because I don't want to install the new one to use the new one.

> As it stands, I can config for several different architectures from one
> config program.  Porting to it is not a trivial amount of work, but I
> think it's well worth the effort if you do plan to be multi-platform,
> and it has been done before on the x86...  ;-)

Config wil die eventually anyway.  I meant for right now.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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