misc/44148: installworld in 4.7-STABLE does not installIPFilter related header files

Bruce Evans bde at zeta.org.au
Fri Apr 25 05:43:29 PDT 2003


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:54:32PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote:
> >
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> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:18:45AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> > > > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote:
> > > > > In the SHARED=symlinks case, /usr/include/netinet is
> > > > > the symlink to /usr/src/sys/netinet.  Hope this now
> > > > > makes more sense.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any reason to not create a real /usr/include/netinet
> > > > and then populate _that_ directory with symbolic links to each
> > > > of the files, individually ?  This should preserve the semantics
> > > > of what "symlinks" is about.

Much as I dislike symlink farms, I think this would work OK (the same
as symlinks from individual headers in the top level of /usr/include to
various places in the src tree).

> > > We could create /usr/include/contrib/ipfilter/netinet, and
> > > that will be consistent with kern.pre.mk.  Those that need
> > > it would just add -I/usr/include/contrib/ipfilter.  How is
> > > this?

Doesn't seem any better.

Bruce


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