From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 19:56:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F9837B400 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:56:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06636; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:56:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3C901F61.1070809@owt.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:56:17 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel source location References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > Can the GENERIC kernel source be moved to a > directory location closer in, like to /etc and > have the old style make depend && make && make install > process still work? > > What ever possessed someone to put it so far out of the way? The opposite to that is what is possessing you to try and change it. You usually uzi yourself in both your feet. In most systems I see links such as /sys -> /usr/src/sys I also happen to feel that is why you have aliases. For example, I have alias cruby cd /sys/i386/conf and that takes me to GENERIC and RUBY. If you change it, then you may miss serious changes to GENERIC as the versions progress along. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message