In message <201901141617.x0eghwqq035...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, 
"Rodney W. Gri
mes" writes:
> > Author: nyan
> > Date: Mon Jan 14 06:34:54 2019
> > New Revision: 343011
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343011
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Use ${SRCTOP}/contrib/com_err/com_err.h instead of the installed com_err.
> h.
> >   This fixes build when com_err.h is not installed.
>
> Isn't this the general state of affairs for almost all
> of the source tree?   I would rather see this solved
> in a general way, rather than sprinkly all this
> -I${SRCTOP} all over in the tree.

Agreed however in practice this is fixed when discovered while working 
on other issues/problems/projects.

>
> It use to be (and maybe still is) required that you run
> cd $DRCTOP && make includes
> if you expected new source code to compile.  I expect
> this has changed, but the just of it should work in
> some aspect.

This fixes the potential bug of requiring a header file to be 
installed. I suspect this to be an oversight at the time.

Good that it's fixed now.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <c...@freebsd.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

        The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.



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