To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>,
        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 1995 23:29:07 +0200."
             <199509292129.XAA23097@grumble.grondar.za> 
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 17:44:41 -0700
Message-Id: <9695.812421881@time.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>

YOUR head!  I've been getting a crick in my neck watching this tennis
match and trying to figure out "does it work now or does it not?  Should
I be worried?  Are these snapshots crap from the crypto perspective??
HELP!!"

:-)

					Jordan

> > >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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