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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:40:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Michael D. Harnois" <mharnois@cpinternet.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <200202212140.g1LLe2S41189@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/34908; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael D. Harnois" <mharnois@cpinternet.com>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>,
	"Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>,
	Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>,
	current@FreeBSD.ORG,
	"freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.  " Org <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>,
	vova@sw.ru
Subject: Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT
Date: 21 Feb 2002 15:39:08 -0600

 On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:29, Terry Lambert wrote:
 > "Michael D. Harnois" wrote:
 > > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 04:03, David O'Brien wrote:
 > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:05:31AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
 > > > >
 > > > > Maybe this can now be committed?
 > > >
 > > > NOT until I have sufficient feedback from the FSF Binutils developers.
 > > 
 > > OK, I'm confused. binutils has been broken for three weeks. We have a
 > > patch that we know fixes, at the very least, one of the known problems.
 > > However, it can't be committed without feedback from the developers.
 > > 
 > > So having binutils broken indefinitely is better than applying a patch
 > > that *might* have to be backed out or altered later?
 > 
 > I believe the intent is to ensure that the patches make it
 > back into the FSF distributed code, so that in the future,
 > there is less maintenance required for FreeBSD platforms.
 
 This is all wonderful.
 
 But then it seems to me that the entire new binutils should have been
 backed out until it worked. Just like XFree-4.2.0 was backed out.
  
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 Michael D. Harnois                   bilocational bivocational
 Pastor, Redeemer Lutheran Church                Washburn, Iowa
 1L, UST School of Law                   Minneapolis, Minnesota
  EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from 
  the foolish their lack of understanding. -- Ambrose Bierce
 

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