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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk 
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:02:53 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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>might not have /sbin in $PATH.  md5 is in /sbin because it might be useful
>for checking security before mounting /usr.  I don't like having absolute
>paths anywhere in the build.

And because we don't want it to be compromised by a bogus shared library.

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