From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 18:24:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.server.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF5637B5E0 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.98]) by mta02-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000603020252.WMZQ10065.mta02-svc.server.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:02:52 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA00612; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:03:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:03:04 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Eric Ogren Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about the gnu/contrib source tree Message-ID: <20000603020304.A232@parish> References: <20000601201916.C232@parish> <20000601193110.B375@earthlink.net> <20000602201438.A378@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000602201438.A378@earthlink.net>; from eogren@earthlink.net on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:14:38PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:14:38PM -0400, Eric Ogren wrote: > Ignore my earlier message about sources being removed from contrib/ when > we modify them; this was wrong. The reason that there is no > /usr/src/contrib but there is a /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sdiff is that the > sources used to compile sdiff are found in /usr/src/contrib/diff (check > the Makefile in gnu/usr.sbin/sdiff). > > We don't remove files from contrib/ at all when we modify them; I don't > really know what I was thinking when I said this. :) > Cheers Eric, that's answered my questions. Thanks for the input > Eric > -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message