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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:30:32 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>, trhodes@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-aout shlib.c shlib.h support.c  support.h
Message-ID:  <p06200709be09cb1c72cd@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20050111.104104.41659378.imp@harmony.village.org>
References:  <200501111640.j0BGeTpT086101@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050111170322.GA2518@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050111120547.0344702c@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050111.104104.41659378.imp@harmony.village.org>

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At 10:41 AM -0700 1/11/05, Warner Losh wrote:
>  > No problem.  I'm not sure why my local build tests didn't pick
>>  this breakage but it happens.  I still feel bad breaking world
>>  for everyone again.  :(
>
>The only way to know for sure is to have a spare, scratch machine
>that you check out the committed sources from and build from
>scratch on. Otherwise you can't be sure that you don't have
>something uncommitted/weird about your machine.  Very inconvenient :-(.

I just set up multi-boot systems.  You don't need an entire spare
machine, you just need some spare disk space.  (and given the size
of hard disks these days, that's pretty easy to do)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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