Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:13:56 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist Message-ID: <199706050013.KAA23780@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I think that's also a good idea but, as I said in my other mail, I >think the true evil here that we have SHARED=copies on systems which >have simply installed a bin dist and we have SHARED=symlinks as the >default in /usr/src/include/Makefile so that anyone building the world >suddenly diverges from the path. > >I can also see where the original designers may have thought this a >very clever, space-saving idea but it's also Deeply Wrong and should >die now. :-) You have this backwards :-). SHARED=copies is a hack to avoid dependencies on /usr/src/*sys. This no longer saves a significant amount of space. Symlinks are fundamentally broken when there are multiple source trees installed, but less so than /usr/include itself. Bruce
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