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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>,
        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>,
        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freefall.freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:34:07 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>

> <<On Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:11:47 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:
> 
> > Right now we have two wrongs making a right. We _have_ to have a make
> > with no MAKE_EBONES to make the clean distribution, followed by a nasty
> > hack to make the tainted distribution. Why can we not have "make
> > distribution" do it properly the first time? Sure we will need to fix
> > the make files, but that can of worms has been brewing for a while...
> 
> Not everyone's build environment is based on `make release' and `make
> distribute'.

Granted. Then the logic should be "if the eBones directory exists, build
eBones _unless_ asked not to", rather than "the directory must be present
_and_ permission must be granted to build eBones".

This would mean that secure and eBones can be added to the system just
by dropping them in.

M
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