Re: Why switch to src/dist?
Simon Burge <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general |
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| Organization | Wasabi Systems, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:14:20PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > A cvs message for basesrc/usr.sbin/tcpdump/Makefile said: > > switch to use src/dist/tcpdump. source code has been checked and the > new tree organization should give the same (or more) decoding > functionalities. > > How does the dist tree organization help? > > (I am just curious.) The usual reason for putting something in src/dist is when we have third party-maintained software that is built from multiple source tree directories. It's a lot easier to import new versions of the software into one place rather than scatter it around the source tree. For example, src/dist/bzip2 is the source for both the bzip2 library (built in src/lib/libbz2) and the bzip2 and bzip2recover programs (built in src/usr.bin/bzip2 and src/usr.bin/bzip2recover). Simon. -- Simon Burge <[email protected]> NetBSD Development, Support and Service: http://www.wasabisystems.com/