Having multple kernel sources

[David Rhodus]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:14:55 -0800, Chris Pressey
<cpressey at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:57:08 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 
> Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > :This patch lets you set a KERNEL_SOURCE variable in /etc/make.conf or
> > on the:command line and the the kernel source you have specified will
> > be build.:
> > :The kernel directory you specify must exist inside your src
> > directory. It:defaults to KERNEL_SOURCE=sys/ if nothing else is
> > specified.:
> > :I would just like to know what you people think, is it even needed?
> > :
> > :http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~eirikn/Makefile.inc1-multiplesys.patch
> > :
> > :--
> > :Eirik Nygaard
> >
> >     I don't think it's quite this simple.  Makefile's all over the
> >     source and system trees use "../.. ...../sys" sequences to get to
> >     'sys'.
> >
> >     I like the idea in concept, but it might wind up being too messy
> >     to implement.
> 
> How about having src/sys be a varsym?  (Not officially, I mean, if some
> developer needs this it sounds like it should be easy enough for them to
> do this.)
> 
> -Chris
> 

I don't think this is a setup we would want to try and support due to
the number of configuration issues that could come up.

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx>