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From: Yaron Zabary <yaron@netaccess.co.il>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Shared libraries in packages
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:32:40 +0200
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Hello all,

  I have ran into this twice now. Things in packages (xemacs and squid)
are built in a system which has libraries (Motif and libmalloc) which
are not part of ordinary distribution. I wonder, how painful would it
be to compile the packages on a machine which was installed from scratch
and does not have libraries which the common user does not have. This
would save us the pain of re-compiling (if we wanted to run
compilations all day long, we would be running Linux, wouldn't we ?).

  Please, take no offence, this is just a suggestion. Generally I think
the the FreeBSD project is producing a very good OS.

TIA.

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-- Yaron.