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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:23:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: core group topics 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731132115.17144D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <E0wtymC-0002jm-00@rover.village.org>

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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730184224.270H-100000@Journey2.mat.net> Chuck Robey writes:
> : 1) Satoshi's new Makefile.  His makefile has been around plenty long
> : enough for testing, and while several people have reported good results,
> : I've seen no negatives reported at all.  Will it get ignored or committed?
> 
> Heck, you have commit privs, so you could do it yourself :-).  That's
> what I've been doing with the OpenBSD security fixes, just doing it
> when I have time, and backing things out that escape my testing
> procedures.
> 
> Granted this is a bigger deal thing than my stuff.

I felt that it's importance was such that only core should do it.
Certainly I could do it.  Let me ask Satoshi, he's core himself.


> 
> : ELF
> 
> If we do this, we should do it in 3.0.  That's the perfect time
> because all the libraries are changing major numbers (or most) and
> people would expect much disruption.  This would be a major diff
> between 2.2.x and 3.x.
> 
> Heck, at least integrate it into the tree and make it possible to
> build the new stuff with a DOELF=yes in /etc/make.conf.  That is the
> next logical step, no?
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> 
> 

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