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Subject: Re: Help me please.. :)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 12:51:48 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199507121605.CAA31521@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 13, 95 02:05:28 am
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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.

Actually the current ``SHARED=copies'' works perfect for a shared src
tree and multiple machines/archs.  Just ask the folks over at CSRG.
/usr is a per arch file system, symlinking from a per arch file system
to a arch independent (/usr/src) file system is bad news.  You just
made another case for leaving it the way it is!

Other solution is variant symbolic link :-).

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