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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:06:28 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071705100.27312-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200009061957.NAA71284@harmony.village.org>

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <20000906233036.A2156@nagual.pp.ru> "Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
> : On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:01:58PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> : > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:13:27PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> : > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:43:39PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> : > > BTW, why kmod.mk use //boot/kernel, i.e. why two slashes?
> : > 
> : > It comes from ${DESTDIR}/${KODIR}.  In the usual case DESTDIR is empty,
> : > and KODIR has a leading slash.  I can make it "${DESTDIR}${KODIR}" if
> : > people feel that people get whats coming to them if KODIR is non-empty
> : > and doesn't have a leading slash.
> : 
> : Just note that two leading slashes is special case for some FSes
> : indicating other cluster.
> 
> DESTDIR should be "" in the / case.

If it were "/", then the bogus slash after ${DESTDIR} would give 3 leading
slashes instead of only 2.

Bruce



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