Subject: Re: obsolete lists looking suspect.
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/19/2000 21:45:50
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:23:11PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> I'm in the middle of cleaning up my alpha, and noticed that there is a
> few things that don't quite look right (to me) on the obsolete lists.
> For example:
> 
> 	alpha:distrib/sets/lists 36> grep /usr/lib/libm_pic.a */*.*
> 
> 	base/obsolete.alpha:/usr/lib/libm_pic.a
> 	comp/obsolete.mi:/usr/lib/libm_pic.a
> 	comp/shl.mi:./usr/lib/libm_pic.a                comp-c-piclib
> 
> 	alpha:distrib/sets/lists 37> grep usr/lib/crtend.o */*.*
> 
> 	base/obsolete.alpha:/usr/lib/crtend.o
> 	comp/shl.elf:./usr/lib/crtend.o         comp-c-lib
> 
> I suspect that in the past, /usr/lib/libm_pic.a and /usr/lib/crtend.o
> may have been in the base set for alpha, and have since migrated to the
> comp set.  To my way of thinking, nothing that appears in any current
> set should appear in any other set's obsolete list, correct?

Yes. It doens't cause any harm but it's useless.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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