Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:31:10 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about the gnu/contrib source tree Message-ID: <20000601193110.B375@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000601201916.C232@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:38:52AM %2B0100 References: <20000601201916.C232@parish>
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Almost. :)
Stuff in /usr/src/contrib is imported straight from GNU; in other words,
we basically FTP patch.tar.gz (or whatever the filename is) from
ftp.gnu.org, and put everything in the src/ directory into
/usr/src/contrib/patch.
Anything we modify from these sources goes into
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/patch, as well as the Makefile we use to build
patch. You cannot cd /usr/src/contrib/patch and run make install and
expect it to work; you must cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/patch and run make
install there.
To sum it up, basically, stuff in /usr/src/contrib comes from GNU; stuff
in /usr/src/gnu/ comes from FreeBSD.
Eric
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:38:52AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Can someone explain the contrib & gnu/usr.{bin,sbin} source trees
> please?
>
> For example, both contrib/ and gnu/usr.bin/ contain source for
> patch(1), but the sdiff(1) source is only in gnu/usr.bin. Am I correct
> in thinking that if source exists in the contrib/ branch then that is
> used to build the binary, and if not the code in gnu/usr.{bin,sbin}/
> is used instead?
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