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Date:      Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:46:19 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Subject:   Re: Another compile error
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981102214619.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19981102213827.00944@follo.net>

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On 02-Nov-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 09:40:28AM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
>> > Right now I cvsup into slice /src (wrong name, I know ;) and make
>> > world from /src/src, but obviously /usr/src doesn't get updated that
>> > way.
>> 
>> I recommend that you CVSup your sources to "/usr/src".  That's the
>> standard place for the system sources.
> 
> I disagree.  I think it would be very good if more people had their
> sources in non-standard location, as it make it more likely that
> somebody introducing a new location dependency get caught.  Bruce did
> a lot of work to eliminate all the dependencies on the location.

Heh, so now I am back at square #1. =)

If I have a seperate slice, let's say /cvs which I would like to use for
cvsup that all goes well. Now when I do a make world in /cvs/src does it
update the /usr/src as well? Or does this require additional fiddling? That
is what keeps evading my mind...

Thanks,

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai
asmodai(at)wxs.nl
Junior Network/Security Specialist
FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve...

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