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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:54:32 +1000
From:      Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/44148: installworld in 4.7-STABLE does not installIPFilter related header files
Message-ID:  <200304250554.PAA03475@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030424192427.GA71112@sunbay.com>

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In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:18:45AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote:
> > > In the SHARED=symlinks case, /usr/include/netinet is
> > > the symlink to /usr/src/sys/netinet.  Hope this now
> > > makes more sense.
> > 
> > Is there any reason to not create a real /usr/include/netinet
> > and then populate _that_ directory with symbolic links to each
> > of the files, individually ?  This should preserve the semantics
> > of what "symlinks" is about.
> > 
> The original purpose of "symlinks" was to provide symlinks
> to /sys sources, it's the so-called "developer's mode", so
> one doesn't need to worry about if he changes/adds/deletes
> a header.
> 
> We could create /usr/include/contrib/ipfilter/netinet, and
> that will be consistent with kern.pre.mk.  Those that need
> it would just add -I/usr/include/contrib/ipfilter.  How is
> this?

Well, at least it helps ports get things from <netinet/*> include
lines.  So this problem only appears to affect people using /usr/src
more "heavily" than the standard user that will install FreeBSD and
get a /usr/include/netinet populated with all the correct files ?

I can see that moving IPFilter include files to /usr/include/ipfilter
at some point in the future will be an even better solution - but
not just yet.

Darren



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