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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!sgigate!odin!sgi!rigden.wpd.sgi.com!rpw3 From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Subject: Re: Patch 00007 Message-ID: <q597lis@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 02:22:34 GMT Lines: 20 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: +--------------- | In a standard (default) installatiom, /sys is a symbolic link to | /usr/src/sys.386bsd and /usr/include/sys is a symbolic link to /sys/sys. +--------------- The original README for the patch kit said that it would work on relative directory paths, but it won't. Nor will it work on relative paths to the sources. This is making it *very* hard to maintain multiple development trees and still try to track these (semi-)official patches. -Rob ----- Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)390-1673 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043