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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
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   From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
   Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 15:23:53 -0400

      > discuss fails to build. the imake command suggested failes to
      > generate Makefiles in the utils and dsgrep subdirs.

      You're probably generating a faulty link tree.  Make sure you're using
      synctree and copying links rather than symlinking to them.

   I updated the sipb-athena README to tell people to use synctree rather
   than lndir to make a discuss build tree.

This won't matter for our own internal use, but note that synctree isn't
distributable outside MIT.  So if we ever want to make a new discuss
distribution for the outside world, it would be good to find another way
to create a build tree other than using synctree.

						- Ted