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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:13:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        nate@sneezy.sri.com, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: new install(1) utility
Message-ID:  <199504050213.TAA05425@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9504050200.AA25538@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 4, 95 08:00:00 pm

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> Julian put forth a persuasive argument to this effect just recently,
> and I agree, in theory.  My problem is that this is going to change the
> iden strings in the binary in any case, and the compare will *always*
> show differences.
> 
> I don't see a reasonable way around this.

Not true.  I ran with a local hack to install which did just this, and
even though it was a kludge, it saved time on the average make world.
I don't think any file will change substantially, as long they come from
the same version from the CVS-tree.

> Oh, cmon, ...please!  Can't I have a little bit of peril?  8-).
Sure Terry, when do we get you patches ?

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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