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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:02:53 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk 
Message-ID:  <11950.843224573@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Sep 1996 22:47:46 %2B1000." <199609201247.WAA16173@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>might not have /sbin in $PATH.  md5 is in /sbin because it might be useful
>for checking security before mounting /usr.  I don't like having absolute
>paths anywhere in the build.

And because we don't want it to be compromised by a bogus shared library.

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