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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:28:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: TRUE and FALSE
Message-ID:  <199502222328.PAA05987@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199502222312.QAA15832@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 22, 95 04:12:35 pm

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> > > If you develop kernel-dependent sw, you had better make sure that your
> > > development env is aligned with your kernel, ie something like:
> > 
> > > 	cd /usr/src/include ; make all install
> > > 	cd /usr/src/sys ; make all install
> > 
> > > or whatever the trick will be.
> > 
> > And I'm saying that it's an incredible imposition to force such
> > developers to do this every time they make a change to a kernel header
> > file.  I won't stand for it.
> 
> I agree with Garrett here.  It's silly to do this, and this will cause
> no end of problems when people forget to do this after they upgrade
> their kernel sources.  Forcing a 'make world' every update is much too
> anal.

Hang on, you lost an important point here:  Anything in the FreeBSD
source will reference the "internal includes", that is relative paths
to the include dirs.  Only things like $HOME/hello.c will be at risk...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.



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