Are Full FreeBSD sources needed?

Garrett Wollman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.freebsd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
<<On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:00:57 -0700 (PDT), "Jason C. Wells" <[email protected]> said:

> Is it preferable to build on a system with full libraries and sources?
> (Feel free to tell me that I have a gross conceptual error on the build
> process.)  I assume it is preferable to build against system installed
> libraries, rather than OpenAFS provided libraries.

I would not assume that just because a library has the same name as a
system library, it does the same thing.

You should not need to have any sources installed.  To the extent that
you do, I'd consider it a bug (albeit one that I may not be too eager
to fix).

-GAWollman
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