Subject: Re: Upcoming Gateway! CD-ROM - you decide!
To: Markus Illenseer <markus@tiger.teuto.de>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 10/04/1996 13:54:10
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Markus Illenseer wrote:
> > While you're at it, why not drop obj symlinks in all of the source
> > directories pointing to /usr/obj, so that someone who doesn't want to
> > use a union filesystem can still do a compile from the CD?
>
> I am not sure if I understand you. You want me to do:
>
> cd /mnt/futurecdrom/usr/src/usr.bin/yes/
> ln -s /usr/obj obj
No, more like:
cd /mnt/futurecdrom/usr/src
make BSDSRCDIR=/mnt/futurecdrom/usr/src obj
This would be of some limited usefulness, at least for folks with a
single architecture.
--scott