Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:03:50 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about the gnu/contrib source tree Message-ID: <20000602200350.C1146@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000601193110.B375@earthlink.net>; from eogren@earthlink.net on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:31:10PM -0400 References: <20000601201916.C232@parish> <20000601193110.B375@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:31:10PM -0400, Eric Ogren wrote:
> Almost. :)
>
> Stuff in /usr/src/contrib is imported straight from GNU; in other words,
> we basically FTP patch.tar.gz (or whatever the filename is) from
> ftp.gnu.org, and put everything in the src/ directory into
> /usr/src/contrib/patch.
>
> Anything we modify from these sources goes into
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/patch, as well as the Makefile we use to build
> patch. You cannot cd /usr/src/contrib/patch and run make install and
> expect it to work; you must cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/patch and run make
> install there.
>
Thanks for the explanation, but, based on what you said, why does the
sdiff(1) source not exist in /usr/src/contrib/ as well as in
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ ?
> To sum it up, basically, stuff in /usr/src/contrib comes from GNU; stuff
> in /usr/src/gnu/ comes from FreeBSD.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:38:52AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > Can someone explain the contrib & gnu/usr.{bin,sbin} source trees
> > please?
> >
> > For example, both contrib/ and gnu/usr.bin/ contain source for
> > patch(1), but the sdiff(1) source is only in gnu/usr.bin. Am I correct
> > in thinking that if source exists in the contrib/ branch then that is
> > used to build the binary, and if not the code in gnu/usr.{bin,sbin}/
> > is used instead?
>
>
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