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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 1995 23:34:43 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), wollman@lcs.mit.edu, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, ache@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
Message-ID:  <199509292134.XAA23138@grumble.grondar.za>

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> It has something to do with the path of least surprize to protect people
> from ``unknowingling'' building a set of binaries that could not be
> exported.  You will find almost _all_ software that has these types of
> restrictions in it requires 2 things to be done, the addition of the
> non exportable code source files and the turning of a knob to enable it.

Unfortunately this has indirectly resulted in eBones not being as clean
as it might be. Your logic is clear and sensible, but the make system
that has been deduced from it is not. The release/Makefile release.2:
target is an example.

M

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