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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:06:41 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Minor nit in build process plus fix
Message-ID:  <9606101506.AA11944@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606100252.TAA02819@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199606100134.LAA23798@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199606100252.TAA02819@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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<<On Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:52:47 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:

> I was thinking in terms of the top level make setting an environment
> variable.  The problem is really "..", not "paths relative to the
> build root".

This presupposes that there /is/ a ``top level make''.  When I'm
rebuilding `w', I don't start from /usr/src, I start from
/usr/src/usr.bin/w (or, on my distribution-building box, from
/usr/releng/src/usr.bin/w).

-GAWollman

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