re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amiga/stand/misc

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, matthew green wrote:

>    > Log Message:
>    > Add AmigaDOS tools for the amiga, which end up in the "installation/misc"
>    > directory of the release tree.
>
>    These should go under src/distrib, I think.
>
> i don't think so.  their sources are in sys/arch/amiga/stand and
> like all the other platforms that have bootblocks built on other
> systems, they're checked into sys not distrib.

  I had looked at both locations, and ended up following the way the i386
does it.  It just worked, and I didn't spend much time trying to figure
out how it fit it into putting it under src/distrib/amiga.  I also asked
Ignatios (amiga portmaster) and got his input.

> Well, we have there the binpatch, dumpfont and loadbsd sources at least,
> and if i386 does it the same way, and it is the way you have it working,
> I'd say, keep it there (err, sys/arch/amiga/stand/misc).
...
> I'd slightly prefer sys/arch/amiga/stand, for the mentioned reasons:
>
> - prior art for Amiga standalone tools
> - prior art in another port
> - you have the build process working that way.


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