On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:47:33PM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:13:14PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, LaMont Jones wrote:
> > > - rdev should be delivered on amd64 as well as i386. (And evidence that
> > > I don't know automake syntax, I expect...)
> >
> > i thought rdev was a dead utility and should be deprecated rather than
> > expanded ? that was the answer i got a long time ago when i proposed having
> > rdev built/installed for x86_64-* targets and i have yet to actually see
> > anyone using this thing ...
> > -mike
>
> The Debian/amd64 crowd asked for it... if we're building it for i386, we
> should probably build it for x86-64. or deprecate it everywhere...
We have many deprecated utils and you don't have to use all the utils
(see --enable-rdev). It's your choice. The upstream is usually more
conservative than downstream and you don't have to blindly use
everything from upstream tarball.
Karel
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