From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 23 11:58:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19569 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:58:29 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA19551 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:57:11 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03374; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 20:50:49 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA25220 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 20:50:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA19525 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 20:48:22 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503231948.UAA19525@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Includes To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 20:48:21 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9503231850.AA19279@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 23, 95 11:50:14 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 824 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Kludging up symlinks in the include directory so that something like > > wollman@halloran-eldar(245)$ cd /usr/include/sys/.. > > causes you to end up in /usr/src/sys instead of /usr/include > is just plain bogus, besides actively interfering with the ability > to cross compile and requiring additional kludges to install or .h:.h > dependency rules to make it work only badly. # Define SHARED to indicate whether you want symbolic links to the system # source (``symlinks''), or a separate copy (``copies''); (latter useful # in environments where it's not possible to keep /sys publicly readable) # SHARED= copies SHARED?= symlinks -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)