From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 25 20:27:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29933 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linus.demon.co.uk (linus.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29820 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA09656; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 03:41:58 GMT Message-Id: <199606260341.DAA09656@linus.demon.co.uk> From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 03:41:57 +0000 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25, 7:14pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > Date: Tue 25 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? > I want to share one source directory on multiple machines or point the > user at a CDROM mounted /usr/src and say "go make world" in the usual > way with no special case handling required. Nate already pointed out that you can burn the symlinks on the CD... > You don't know how many > times I've fielded requests from people wanting this functionality, to > say nothing of myself. For how many people will this work without a symlink tree anyway? What if you need to apply a source patch? Or build secure/ or eBones/? Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home