Subject: Re: subtle breakage
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/12/1997 21:50:42
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 21:10:26 -0800 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com> wrote:

 > Are we talking past each other? install -s is now broken.  I don't believe
 > it used to be broken. I said a link to /usr/local/bin/strip was a short
 > quick fix. Then you said (or I read) "the alpha port's strip has always
 > been in /usr/local/bin," which lead to a circle jerk that gets us
 > to you now saying "it's _always_ been /usr/bin/strip.".
 > 
 > Jason, this has got to be a prime example of a human
 > null predecessor circle. :-)

But, _there has always been a /usr/bin/strip -> /usr/local/bin/strip
symlink on the Alpha port_!

Has been since day-one.

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