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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, ache@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile
Message-ID:  <199509292142.OAA00821@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509292134.XAA23138@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Sep 29, 95 11:34:43 pm

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> 
> > It has something to do with the path of least surprize to protect people
> > from ``unknowingling'' building a set of binaries that could not be
> > exported.  You will find almost _all_ software that has these types of
> > restrictions in it requires 2 things to be done, the addition of the
> > non exportable code source files and the turning of a knob to enable it.
> 
> Unfortunately this has indirectly resulted in eBones not being as clean
> as it might be. Your logic is clear and sensible, but the make system
> that has been deduced from it is not. The release/Makefile release.2:
> target is an example.

I have no comments on release/Makefile.  


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