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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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Subject: Re: Current build failure 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 23:16:06 -0700
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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