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Subject: Re: Root partition and usrland on one slice, /usr/local ports and src
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12.11.2017 1:39, lankfordandrew@charter.net wrote:

> It's been quite a while since I've tried a rebuild, but I think the
> problems appeared early when gcc and gas and dependencies were being
> built. I tried just symlinks, then different settings of the build
> variables, and (IIRC) enabling clang. Perhaps I could start fresh with
> 11.1, but then perhaps placing everything on one slice is the most
> straightforward solution.

I still don't get what specific problems did you have
but I'm sure they were not due to symlinking as such links work just fine
for me with gcc, and with clang too.