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Reply-To: Rick Campbell <rickc@lehman.com>
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From: Rick Campbell <rickc@lehman.com>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Solaris dynamics? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Jun 1997 16:36:41 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:03:53 -0400
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I've built it on SunOS many times.  It's certainly not the easiest
distributed software around when it comes to building -- mostly
becauses there are a lot of extra packages to track down in order to
get all of the right stuff in place -- consider for example, that at
my site there's no /dev/audio support under /usr/demo.

In any case, I like to install the prebuilt binary locally because
there's no chance that any build failure was due to my carelessness,
that is, I assume that the person building the `official' one has a
lot of experience building with all bells and whistles for that
particular platform enabled.

In any case, it just seems silly to distribute binaries over the net
that require the run-time environment to closely resemble the build
environment.  This strikes me as (yet another) step backward for
computing that we can, at least in part, thank Mr. Gates for.

			Rick

