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To: bjn@visi.com (Brent J. Nordquist)
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Subject: Re: 2.2 CVSUP 2-6-97 20:00 USA EDT 
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 22:20:43 +0000
From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@munich.netsurf.de>
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"Brent J. Nordquist" writes:
>I understand the philosophy behind /usr/src/contrib, but I'm not
>sure I fully understand how it works in practice when making the
>world.  Do you have to do something special to get the /usr/src/contrib
>version of an application to be the one used?  Are there supposed
>to be symbolic links pointing into /usr/src/contrib if that's the
>one being used?  (Do you get the /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin version of
>an app. by default unless you take some additional step?)
>

the magic is in the Makefiles or Makefile.inc. See the .PATH and
CFLAGS directives.

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