Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:13:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: nate@sneezy.sri.com, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Message-ID: <199504050213.TAA05425@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9504050200.AA25538@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 4, 95 08:00:00 pm
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> Julian put forth a persuasive argument to this effect just recently, > and I agree, in theory. My problem is that this is going to change the > iden strings in the binary in any case, and the compare will *always* > show differences. > > I don't see a reasonable way around this. Not true. I ran with a local hack to install which did just this, and even though it was a kludge, it saved time on the average make world. I don't think any file will change substantially, as long they come from the same version from the CVS-tree. > Oh, cmon, ...please! Can't I have a little bit of peril? 8-). Sure Terry, when do we get you patches ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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