Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:07:53 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation Message-ID: <19970406150753.SQ24384@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970406122832.5270.qmail@suburbia.net>; from proff@suburbia.net on Apr 6, 1997 22:28:32 %2B1000 References: <19970406114210.NQ47928@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970406122832.5270.qmail@suburbia.net>
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As proff@suburbia.net wrote: > I don't see that outside references are a problem, provided the > user is kept aware of them. That's probably the best solution to handle src/contrib code for kernel-land, yes. But it makes packaging the distributions harder. Right now, it's sufficient to install the `ssys' distribution if you wanna rebuild your kernel. If we simply reference through ../../contrib in sys/conf/files, this will require the luser to install the entire contrib distribution bloat as it stands now. So this obviously needs a little more thoughts, and i hoped to get some thoughts from those people who were actually _asking_ for ipfilter. Well, that's certainly not me, i don't have any opportunity to use it. My only concern was as the 2.2 release engineer, to possibly get it into 2.2, but that's too late. > The kernel does depend on some outside > references i.e /usr/include... It only relies on /usr/include in order to compile an auxiliary binary, not to compile the kernel itself. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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