From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 16:34:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA07247 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA07238 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA25745; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:33:50 -0700 (PDT) To: Michael Smith cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build failure in 2.1-RELEASE to -stable transition. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 1996 08:57:10 +0930." <199605082327.IAA00255@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 16:33:50 -0700 Message-ID: <25743.831598430@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ...but if you don't have the 'dict' distribution installed before you start > 'make world', it will fall over like this. Ah, I see what you meant before. IMHO, this is bad. If you choose "minimal" then you're going to the bin and bin only, and it would hardly be inexcusable for someone to expect that not chosing "dict" wouldn't result in failure during a later upgrade to -stable. We should fix this. Jordan