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Date:      Sun, 01 Sep 1996 23:16:06 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Current build failure 
Message-ID:  <199609020616.XAA03092@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Sep 1996 01:39:27 EDT." <199609020539.BAA04383@whizzo.transsys.com> 

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>> Keep supping and making (once a week or once a day), current is often not
>> buildable.
>
>Ah, I thought that while current was on the bleeding edge, the code
>should certainly at least compile before it's checked in!  Hard to
>imagine any good reason why it wouldn't complile, short of problems in
>the build environment.
>
>Heck, I feel stupid for actually *testing* the code I contributed - I
>didn't realize broken code was OK too.

   *Cough*...It's our policy for changes made in -current that they should
not break the build system. Sometimes it's difficult to test all of the cases
and bugs do slip in sometimes...but this is certainly not generally "ok".

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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