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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:06:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
To:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and ELF
Message-ID:  <199809021609.SAA00372@yacht.domestic.de>
In-Reply-To: <199809020723.AAA22823@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 2, 98 07:23:23 am"

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> The patch is not useful unless you are micro-tracking the FreeBSD -current
> sources, which the XFree86 project is not.

Parts of the patch remove a programming error (failure to include
<netinet/in.h> and/or <arpa/inet.h>) and thus are at least not useless.

> The eventual FreeBSD ABI should (hopefully) match at least two of the
> other BSD 4.4 derivative ABI's.

Incidentally, the ELF-relevant part of the patch is cloned from
NetBSD with little to no modification.

> In an ideal world, given that the Solaris ABI changes at a slower rate
> than all others, FreeBSD (and the other BSD's) would adopt the Solaris
> ABI for ABI compatability...
> 
> And then monkeys fly out my butt.

cu Jo

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