From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 11:24:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA27082 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:24:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA27004 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA06449; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:23:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA23913; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:19:23 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:19:23 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Josh MacDonald) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: texinfo changes ready References: <199701100646.WAA07104@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701100646.WAA07104@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>; from Josh MacDonald on Jan 9, 1997 22:46:13 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Josh MacDonald wrote: > 4. Import the original sources post-configured and patched into > gnu/texinfo. Better, import them into src/contrib/texinfo, and make the Makefiles under src/gnu/texinfo reference the original files. Files you wish to override can still be put under src/gnu/texinfo, of course. You could have a look at src/usr.bin/vi for an example of something that references files from `contrib'. The rationale behind this is that it eases merging new vendor versions, since the FreeBSD changes are largely divorced from the vendor sources. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)