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On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 19:00, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2004 at 0:37, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
>=20
> > Dan Langille wrote:
> >=20
> > > Is LATEST_LINK supposed to be unique? It's not. There's about 201
> > > ports which have duplicate values.
> >=20
> > It is, expect when NO_LATEST_LINK is set (in which case no latest link=20
> > exists). Did you filtr out these cases? Everything else is bug, Kris di=
d=20
> > some survey AFAIK.
>=20
> I obtained my list from the output of "make -V LATEST_LINK" and paid=20
> no attention to NO_LATEST_LINK.
>=20
> Are you saying LATEST_LINK must be ignored if NO_LATEST_LINK is set? =20

Yes.

> Why is this not done programatically?  i.e. output an empty string.

No reason that I can see.  It could be made to output en empty value if
NO_LATEST_LINK is set.

Joe

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