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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:17:31 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: TRUE and FALSE 
Message-ID:  <9502232217.AA11101@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15359.793507347@freefall.cdrom.com>
References:  <9502230051.AA09330@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <15359.793507347@freefall.cdrom.com>

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<<On Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:42:27 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> said:

> Any program which is "part" of FreeBSD should be compiled "inside" the
> source tree, period.  Sure, it may work for some things to be compiled
> in any old location but certainly not everything, and if it's not
> guaranteed to be deterministic then it should be discouraged.  Period.

I very strongly disagree, and I think the work necessary to make
in-tree-reference compiles work should, if done right, come close to
making this work all the time.

-GAWollman

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