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To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:16:40 -0000."
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:26:58 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Have you tried it?  :-)
> 
>   $ cd ~/tmp
>   $ mkdir src i386 i386/obj

Uh, that's supposed to work automatically though.  You shouldn't need
to know your architecture.  Sure, it'll *use* the symlink (and I do
know since I looked at the code that implements this! :-) but there
was no infrastructure for creating the architecture specific links and
if it's not done transparently then it's not much use (at least not
unless you *like* answering user questions :-).

					Jordan