From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 7 23:11:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27818 for current-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27813 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id RAA15206; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:40:56 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702080710.RAA15206@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2 CVSUP 2-6-97 20:00 USA EDT In-Reply-To: <199702071550.JAA26268@undquirt.visi.com> from "Brent J. Nordquist" at "Feb 7, 97 09:50:41 am" To: bjn@visi.com Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:40:55 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brent J. Nordquist stands accused of saying: > > 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?) Code in /contrib is referenced by a Makefile in the 'correct' place using the '.PATH' feature of make. Have a look at /usr/src/lib/libtcl/Makefile for an example. There's not supposed to be duplicates of anything in the tree; the gdb case was a slip-up on Joerg's part. There are no symbolic links involved. > Brent J. Nordquist / bjn@visi.com > +1 612 827-2747 > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[