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To: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/ld shlib.c 
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 01:17:35 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Who sets the standard?  How come for FreeBSD versions 1 and 2 this WAS
> the standard?

Because we were asleep at the switch.

Seriously.  There are a LOT of bogons like this in our system where somebody
bandaided something to make it work and it either went unnoticed or has simply
never been important enough in anyone's eyes to immediately fix, but its
historical precedence doesn't make it "right".

In this case, it's very plain to me that if we want to make a `magic'
directory in FreeBSD like /usr/local/lib, the place to do it is NOT in
the compiler, it's in the appropriate makefile macros!  You can still make
it every bit as `default' if you really wish to, but NOT in the compiler!
It's simply the wrong place, IMNSHO.

					Jordan