Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:47:05 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Jon Bailey <jonb@matchlogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/contrib -> /usr/src/gnu ? Message-ID: <19990223074705.A1830@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301977FAA@HOUSTON>; from Jon Bailey on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:53:26PM -0700 References: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301977FAA@HOUSTON>
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On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:53:26PM -0700, Jon Bailey wrote: > Shouldn't a handful of utils under /usr/src/contrib live under /usr/src/gnu > , or perhaps all be condensed in a /usr/src/contrib/gnu ? > > :-) How does it come that you ask me ? ;-) Well, /usr/src/contrib is the _new_ (since about 1-2 years) place to include software on a vendor branch bases, that doesn't have the BSD Copyright. In /usr/src/gnu we create a file hierarchie, that reflects the placement of the imported stuff in contrib. There you also find the Makefiles in the Berkeley-make format. It's history, that you still find some sources in /usr/src/gnu. But people are clever and want to save work by waiting for a reason, before they start to nuke the stuff in /usr/src/gnu and reimport it under the contrib section. So you have some GNU sources in contrib and gnu, but it's merging to have every GNU source in the contrib section and only the "bmaked" Makefiles in src/gnu, that only point to the sources in contrib. I'll drop a copy of this into freebsd-questions, so this answer will be searchable via the mailing list ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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