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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 1996 03:41:57 +0000
From:      mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@sri.mt.net
Subject:   Re: Building inside of /usr/src?
Message-ID:  <199606260341.DAA09656@linus.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Jun 25,  7:14pm

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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> 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.

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