Source tree hierarchy

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Tue Nov 30 08:54:41 PST 2004


On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:
>
> Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the
> other?
>
> Like sys and i386, for example?

They are different things:

/usr/src/sys		Kernel sources (entire source tree).

/usr/src/sys/sys	Kernel header files.  These are installed as
			/usr/include/sys/* by the installation process.


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