On Fri, 3 Mar 1995, matthew green wrote:

>    Why not just make $SRCDIR/sys point to the right place, instead?
> 
> because that will always point to the directory that i sup into,
> not the directory that i build kernels from (they are currently
> different).  i'd have to play symlink-chasy to do it.  but maybe
> i'm the exception and should have to do this anyway..

When I did the send-pr, I *knew* there would be someone that the patch 
would affect in an adverse way.  I figured that the majority would be 
using the source tree the way I do, i.e. sup everything and 'make 
build'.  Since making the kernel itself doesn't depend on an absolute 
path, it seemed to make sense to make userland the same way; I don't know 
how many other references there are like this, but I purposely didn't 
'fix' /sys and this was the only related problem I ran into through the 
whole build.

It was accidental that this even happened in the first place, since I 
moved my source tree from /a to /b and didn't bother updating the 
symlinks. :-)