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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 1995 14:03:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange entries in /usr/src/Makefile
Message-ID:  <199507202103.OAA09826@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507202037.NAA02882@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Jul 20, 95 01:37:18 pm

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> 
>  * Actually it has a bug too, it assumes src and ports are sitting
>  * side by side.  I caught this when you pointed on the symlink
>  * from /usr/src/ports -> /usr/ports or where ever it may be.
>  * 
>  * DO NOT apply my patch, it is not a general solution to the
>  * problem :-(.  And infact for anyone who has symlinked /usr/src
>  * off some place will probably be the wrong solution :-(.
>  * 
>  * Need more time to think about this to see if I can come up with
>  * a real solution.  Any ideas???
> 
> That's right, many people have /usr/src -> /a/src and /usr/ports ->
> /b/ports kinds of setups.
> 
> The only way to "solve" this is to use the full pathname "/usr/ports"
> in there, but then it will screw up people who have src and ports side 
> by side on a separate location.
> 
> I'd prefer it nuked, it just doesn't belong here.

Then neither does the assumption in bsd.ports.mk that /usr/ports is
the root of the ports tree :-(.  That is after all what started this
whole thread, that bsd.port.mk and /usr/src/Makefile where in disagreement
about locations.


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