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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: Help me please.. :)
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>> There are two bugs here:

>There is one bug here.

>> 1) ...

>> 2) FreeBSD releases have /usr/include/machine populated with files.  It
>>    should be a symlink to /sys/i386/include to avoid update problems.

>This is not a bug, realize that without the src release installed if we
>did this you could not use the system for compiling.  Bill did that
>...

>We need to ``enhance'' the installation of the src tree, that is where
>the bug lies.  When a src tree is installed then and only then should

There are hundreds of bugs here :-).  We need to support multiple
machines someday.  Then files in /usr/include/machine can't work even if
it is a symlink.  A symlink is still better because it can be changed
much faster.

Bruce