Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:33:32 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@newport.ece.uci.edu>, Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/ld shlib.c Message-ID: <12950.795688412@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 22:46:32 MST." <199503200546.WAA06018@trout.sri.MT.net>
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I agree completely and utterly with Nate. Having a port just magically work because /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib are magically tacked on by the system is one of the purest forms of evil there is; it masks your true dependencies and causes people to be unforgivably lazy in their porting habits, making "freebsd-centric" software arise to further plague those who would like their large free software collections to compile on *multiple* platforms. This was a good change, and one of the prime examples of what we need to do to actually simplify certain parts of the system if we're not to dig a big ugly hole for ourselves to later fall into. Jordan
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