From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 24 13:33:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAEAC37B401; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5OKXXV91156; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:33:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200106242033.f5OKXXV91156@harmony.village.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Cc: Matthew Jacob , John Baldwin In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:43:15 PDT." <20010624004315.A27083@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010624004315.A27083@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010622104940.P20923-100000@wonky.feral.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:33:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010624004315.A27083@dragon.nuxi.com> freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG writes: : On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:50:00AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: : > Why can't we do it like NetBSD and have : > : > sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile? : : It makes it harder to make src/sys/compile a single simple symlink to : writable storage. Generally, most people will have at most one or two architectures, so the symlink isn't that hard to do. Also, since most people wanting to do this could also just specify the command line option to config. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message