[673] in NetBSD-Development
Re: consult locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 15 10:29:22 1995
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 15:29:42 GMT
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@livewire.mit.edu>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[660] in NetBSD-Development"
> As for libregexp.a, I'm a purist and I would rather not install a
> libraries not built with the /usr/share/mk include files; that is,
> it'd be nice to have pic and profiling versions as well; shareables
> are an open question, though...
"Purism" is a poor excuse for a poor position here. We should not
require people to use non-portable compilation tools to build programs
for NetBSD. In general, we should also not put ourselves in the
position of locker maintainers for every locker we control the NetBSD
binary directory for, so if the consult locker doesn't have profiling
versions of libregexp.a, you should not have refused to install
bdrosen's compiled libregexp because he did not have a profiling
version.
Hopefully, this is moot by now.
