From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 18 15:46: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.quidel.com (webmail.quidel.com [63.125.144.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EDF37B405; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:46:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from et@quidel.com) Received: by mail.quidel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:53:11 -0700 Message-ID: <9D4A4E19244ED4119BE90050DAD5DD47BC554A@mail.quidel.com> From: Etienne de Bruin To: 'John Baldwin' , Etienne de Bruin Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: release.8 (4.3-RELEASE) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:53:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But what does this accomplish in the contect of release.8 if our purpose is to 'copy' all the binaries to the new mfsroot? On 18-Jul-01 Etienne de Bruin wrote: > I was reading the Makefile in /usr/src/release and wondering about the > > for dir in bin sbin ; do \ > ln -sf /stand $$dir; \ > done > > part in release.8 - it is my understanding that all that is under /stand is > linked to files in $$dir. > > What does this accomplish? No, it links $$dir to /stand. This creates /sbin and /bin directories so that you can still see /bin/ls even though ls is really in /stand/ls. This is to make a "normal" path work right, and to allow scripts which assume the default location of utilities work. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message