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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:14:39 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        shmit@kublai.com
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile 
Message-ID:  <21411.903975279@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:11:01 EDT." <19980824121101.27653@kublai.com> 

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Brian Cully wrote in message ID
<19980824121101.27653@kublai.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:31:39AM -0700, Gary Palmer wrote:
> > gpalmer     1998/08/22 07:31:39 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     lib                  Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   Building `compat' on alpha is meaningless (they are i386 libraries)
> 
> I thought compat contained a some legacy API calls? So it's there for
> more than just backwards binary compatibility, but for source compatibility
> as well, no?

You are thinking of libcompat. compat is older revs of shared libraries
uuencoded and checked into the repository. These are hence i386-centric
(right now at least).

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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