Source tree hierarchy
Jonathon McKitrick
jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Tue Nov 30 09:01:52 PST 2004
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
: 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.
Ok, that makes sense. But src/sys/i386/i386 has source code, not just
headers. Is this code that is specific to i386 CPUs, while src/sys/i386 is
just specific to the system architecture?
jm
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