Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/etc
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/29/2003 19:35:02
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:54:35PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:17:03AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:14:30PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > >=20
> > > I don't think this was right. Could you explain your reasoning?
> >=20
> > MAKEDEV is now generated, and thus comes from the obj tree rather
> > than vanilla sources. I think it's the correct change.
>=20
> Except that it has to go into /dev :-( So still has to be handled
> separately.
Uhm, why?
Oh, I see why. I'll talk about this in a separate part of the thread.
> Might be reasonable to remove that hack and add a symlink (for
> compatibility) between /dev/MAKEDEV and /etc/MAKEDEV.
> I'm fairly sure I commited changes so that init can still run MAKEDEV.
Rather than that, I'd suggest switching etc/Makefile to using
=2Einclude <bsd.files.mk>
FILESDIR=3D /etc
FILESDIR_MAKEDEV=3D /dev
FILES=3D all the files in there now :-)
Take care,
Bill
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