Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: Re: Can't make 'make' without directory routines - need help Message-ID: Date: 16 May 89 19:31:42 GMT References: <768@kosman.UUCP> <1050@mcmi.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: denny@mcmi.UUCP's message of 16 May 89 14:24:09 GMT In article <1050@mcmi.UUCP> denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page) writes: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes: >... I found I needed to get ndir.h from the emacs sources >(how annoying! -- can't they make these things complete?). Why distribute 16,000 copies of code that most people already have? If you don't have it, get it from the archives. Gwyn's is PD. If you can't do that, strip the one out of emacs. -- it shouldn't be hard. *The* real solution (okay, *A* real solution) is to have a known source tree for FSF products, so that authors can #include "../emacs/include/ndir.h", or wherever it's actually stored. Even if they don't have the sources to everything online, at least they have a clue as to where it's to be found. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) I'm a right-to-lifer -- everyone has a right to earn a living sufficient to feed himself and his family.