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Date:      14 Dec 1997 19:46:45 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with gzip'd executables
Message-ID:  <864t4brcdm.fsf@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:01:13 -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213193041.20991D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <199712141701.JAA19447@austin.polstra.com>

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John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> writes:

> I think you're right -- it's related to my recent dynamic linker
> changes.  Actually it's caused not by my original changes, but by the
> work-around I put in later for the emacs bug.  Sigh.
> 
> I'll try to do something to make it work again.  I really don't
> want to abandon the changes entirely if I can avoid it.  Being able
> to debug from core dumps is too big of a win.  However, I may have
> to back out my changes temporarily in order to buy time to fix the
> problems that have been cropping up.

Personally, I feel that you should just drop the hacks to handle old
emacs binaries and send a clear heads-up to
current@FreeBSD.ORG. Current is for developers - we should have the
hardware to handle an Emacs re-compile :-)

Eivind.




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