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Date:      Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:48:10 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /sys hierarchy 
Message-ID:  <200007060248.UAA46767@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:26:10 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000705132519.28854D-100000@fledge.watson.org> 
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000705132519.28854D-100000@fledge.watson.org>  

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000705132519.28854D-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert Watson writes:
: On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
: 
: > The headers will always be installed in the right place in
: > /usr/include: Makefile's are editable.  As far as kernel
: > compiles, symlinks can be created in the work directory as
: > one possible solution.  For example,
: > sys/compile/i386/GENERIC/netinet -> ../../../../net/inet.
: > This would most likely result in netinet _not_ being split
: > up.
: 
: As much as I'd love a complete cleanup of sys/, this cure seems to be
: worse than the problem. :-)  Take this as another vote to leave net/ as
: is, if only to keep the includes in kernel code in sync with includes in
: userland code :-).

The proposed change also breaks the ability to have /usr/include/* be
symbolic links to your real source tree.

Warner


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