Message-Id: <199509292129.XAA23097@grumble.grondar.za>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 23:29:07 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>

> >Ah yes, the LDADD changes. If those are not _correctly_ set to the
> >appropriate ebones/lib/libfoo/obj/<whatever> then it will fail. At 2.0.5
> >release time, this was working. I own up to breaking this when I redid
> >the make files during the Great Repository Copy (tm).
> 
> It must have worked because Jordan had MAKE_EBONES in his local
> /etc/make.conf.  Without installed libraries, there is *no way* that
> it could have worked.  In fact, David was the one who reported the problem
> to me first (Jordan has MAKE_EBONES in his local make.conf and had many
> successful builds before David's complaint).

On perusal of the relevant files, I agree with you.

> The problem you fixed for 2.0.5 was the chicken and egg problem with
> building secure distributions in a chroot tree where MAKE_EBONES could
> not be defined.

OK - I'll buy that. There was such a flat panic that I cannot remember
too many fine details anyway. My poor head. Its staring to hurt...

M

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