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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. 
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> I say, why not _not_ bmake tcl, let it "all hang out" in its original
> format, except untarred and with patches applied, and let its own
> build do the work (modulo some makefile diffs (destdir etc)). diffs
> can easily be generated with 'cvs diff'. Further versions {c|sh}ould
> be imported on vendor branches.

Because all of the 'Berkeley' targets don't work.

'make depend all install clean cleandir obj' etc.. are *useful* (nay
critical) for some installations.


Nate