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To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist 
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 13:24:20 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199706050709.RAA00482@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> David Nugent writes:
: Ok. If we go this route - and I have no major objection - can we
: completely detach builds in /usr/src from hardwired /usr/include and
: /usr/lib? Possibly others too, like /usr/share/mk. I realise this is
: more extreme than what you're saying, but if you see where I'm pointing,
: it'll ultimately make it possible to build a completely different version
: of the OS on any other version without the runtime dependencies in
: the installed system, and it should not have any effect on the
: installed system either.

I'd love to see this for cross compilation purposes.  It will take
some doing, however.  I don't think it should be required to move
forward on the symlink stuff, however, that the whole tree build w/o
hard wired, directly or indirectly, /usr/lib and /usr/include.

Warner