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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 1999 09:53:52 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1
Message-ID:  <386334A0.99AF5B87@scc.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912241508360.25201-100000@alphplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> I couldn't disagree more.  It is a matter of fact that strfile must be
> bootstrapped, even for certain old versions of FreeBSD that have it in
> /usr/games, because it is invoked by buildworld with a new flag (-C)
> which old versions of strfile don't have.

Yes, but strfile shouldn't actually be in /usr/games IMO. It should be
in /usr/bin or be a special purpose build tool that never gets
installed.

Adding the -C option was probably a mistake as well. It's sole purpose
is to support the FreeBSD tag, right?

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