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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean?
Date: 17 Jan 1995 16:32:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3fbgok$s0i@ivory.lm.com>,
Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>In article <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com>, David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> wrote:
>>
>>The FreeBSD camp should consider it a bug whenever a NetBSD program 
>>fails to compile or its binary to run.
>>
>>The NetBSD camp should consider it a bug whenever a FreeBSD program 
>>fails to compile or its binary to run.
>
>This is the single most intelligent thing that has been said in the
>entire discussion.

Agreed.  I'd be happy to field bug reports from people who have statically
linked NetBSD binaries that don't run.  Shared library compatibility would
also be nice but I don't see that happening real soon, so for now I'd prefer
to deal only with binary compat issues.

						Jordan