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#! rnews 1128 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet From: "Pierre Y. Dampure" <pdampure@dial.pipex.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports Date: 18 Feb 1997 11:20:02 GMT Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <01bc1d8d$f2f09aa0$0342000a@southpole> References: <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: af244.du.pipex.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35687 Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote in article <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>... > What's bugging me is this: why create another directory and link it to > /usr/ports? Why not just lndir /usr/ports directly? > > What am I not getting here? > I suspect the issue is : where would you generate your object files / executables ?