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Date:      Wed, 06 Mar 1996 03:07:21 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: 2.2-960226-SNAP now on ftp.freebsd.org 
Message-ID:  <14914.826110441@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 11:42:31 %2B0200." <199603060942.LAA29420@grumble.grondar.za> 

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> I found out why last night. The make world is "allowing" this to happen
> by not having a -DNOCRYPT in release/Makefile release: target. We should
> have some cruft a' la the eBones crap for explicitly generating the crypto
> versions. I am working on that now - init is done - ed will come tonight
> along with the changes to lib/Makefile and some others.

Awesome!  Thanks, Mark!

> Why are we carrying some of this crap? Ok I know why we need the old
> shared libraries, but there is a libgcc.so.261.0 in the distribution
> that really aught to go in the libcompat set? Let me know what is
> involved in broad terms and I'll look at it.

Well, as to why, I guess backwards compatibility.  People want to
continue running their old bins.  If there's something from a previous
release that needs to go into a new one in order to support this,
there's the start of a compat dist.  The libgcc.so.261.0 was a special
case because Poul-Henning didn't feel like rolling a compat205
distribution with only one file in it.. :-)

> Isn't sticking buggy software on a developer's CD an incentive to fix
> it? ]:->

That's one way of looking at it, I suppose..  :-)

If the XFree86 people actually feel that this would be of value to
them, I'll do it.  Otherwise, I'll just stick with what's there.

					Jordan



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