setup revisit

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Mar 23 17:59:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:57:47PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Sorry for my shorthand - "the link to" should be prefixed by "in a
>> bootstrap environment ".
>
>One problem with the original setup is that it didn't include the
>source trees.  The developer had to have the binaries installed, and
>the Makefile pulled them from your bin directory.  That made keeping
>track of the right sources even harder.

Actually, the binaries were checked into CVS.  They were built into
setup.exe from there.

cgf



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