From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 22 16:05:07 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA10790 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:05:07 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA10780 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:04:52 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA16127; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:08:06 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:08:06 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199502230008.RAA16127@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp "Re: TRUE and FALSE" (Feb 22, 3:47pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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