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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 20:48:21 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Includes
Message-ID:  <199503231948.UAA19525@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9503231850.AA19279@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 23, 95 11:50:14 am

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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> Kludging up symlinks in the include directory so that something like
> 
> 	wollman@halloran-eldar(245)$ cd /usr/include/sys/..
> 
> causes you to end up in /usr/src/sys instead of /usr/include
> is just plain bogus, besides actively interfering with the ability
> to cross compile and requiring additional kludges to install or .h:.h
> dependency rules to make it work only badly.

# Define SHARED to indicate whether you want symbolic links to the system
# source (``symlinks''), or a separate copy (``copies''); (latter useful
# in environments where it's not possible to keep /sys publicly readable)
# SHARED=       copies
SHARED?=        symlinks

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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