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Re: CVS commit: src/etc



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:
> > > 
> > > I don't think this was right. Could you explain your reasoning?
> > 
> > MAKEDEV is now generated, and thus comes from the obj tree rather
> > than vanilla sources. I think it's the correct change.
> 
> 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

.include <bsd.files.mk>

FILESDIR=               /etc
FILESDIR_MAKEDEV=       /dev

FILES=  all the files in there now :-)

Take care,

Bill

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