From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 23 14:45:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA24374 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 14:45:46 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA24368 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 14:45:37 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA20300; Thu, 23 Mar 95 15:37:18 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503232237.AA20300@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Make World Times and a question about shared libs / make all To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 15:37:17 MST Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, bde@zeta.org.au, me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20402.795991237@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 23, 95 12:40:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > When people say that /usr/include should contain symlinks pointing > > to directories, my teeth begin to itch. > > Perhaps you're keeping the Preparation-H too close to the toothpaste > in your medicine cabinet.. :-) Ever run a lab full of student PC's using netboot in a menu in the autoexec.bat mounting /usr via NFS? Symlinks play hell with this, especially if you don't want them to necessarily have /usr/src available to them. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.