Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:08:06 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE Message-ID: <199502230008.RAA16127@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> "Re: TRUE and FALSE" (Feb 22, 3:47pm)
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> > At what gain are we doing this? I believe it's a noble gain to have the > > source tree compile w/out reference to /usr/include, but what does it > > gain us? The only thing I can see where it's a big deal is building a > > brand-new $(DESTDIR) tree. Other than that, most of the time I *want* > > to use the files in /usr/include and NOT those in /usr/src (speaking as > > a user-land kind of guy). > > "The only thing..." > > You are elected to release eng for 2.2 if you want to ... :-) chroot is your friend. ;) I did a bit of this when FreeBSD was barely alive at MSU, and I wouldn't want to do it again, but with CVS and a chroot tree I was able to build a DESTDIR tree pretty well which only relied on the stuff inside that tree. If you are *really* interesteed in how I did it, send me private email and we'll talk. Note, this was only part of the release engr. task, but a significant one. Nate
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