From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 08:42:37 -0700 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] mkfile question: mklib & co. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 97431b94-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > got a question regarding /sys/src/cmd/mklib, why aren't HFILES copied to /$objtype/include? the headers aren't programmatically generated so the mkfiles don't get involved. a human writes them and saves them in the appropriate place. your question is a little like asking why *.c isn't copied to /sys/src/cmd. also, /$objtype/include does not hold many header files at all. the portable headers go in /sys/include, and only machine-dependent headers (u.h) go in /$objtype/include. russ