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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/dylan - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714234610.297G-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199807131944.MAA23116@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:

> I just knew someone was going to comment on that.  You need it if
> you want to build from source.  d2c uses itself to bootstrap itself.
> If you want just the built package, then your file gets a lot
> smaller.

I had the same trouble on my first few versions of the lang/objc port
(until it evolved a version that could build it's boot from C).  I just
convinced the author to put a boot version on the ftp site.

This establishes a very bad precedent.

> 
> 

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