Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 03:41:57 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606260341.DAA09656@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25, 7:14pm
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > I want to share one source directory on multiple machines or point the > user at a CDROM mounted /usr/src and say "go make world" in the usual > way with no special case handling required. Nate already pointed out that you can burn the symlinks on the CD... > You don't know how many > times I've fielded requests from people wanting this functionality, to > say nothing of myself. For how many people will this work without a symlink tree anyway? What if you need to apply a source patch? Or build secure/ or eBones/? Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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