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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: -current is still broken as of 2000/01/27 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:35:33 PST."
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:35:33 PST, Jason Evans wrote:

> This is the same kind of breakage I caused when moving some definitions
> into unistd.h.  I would call it bootstrapping breakage, but others who know
> the build system better claim it's avoidable.

I think it _is_ avoidable.  One way to avoid it is to try to make world
and report the brekage to -committers, asking for help.  This works best
when you do it _before_ committing the change you're testing. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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