Subject: Re: texinfo files
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 09/25/1998 16:49:36
>Greg A. Woods writes:
>> I did try and find some statement on the WWW to the effect that all
>> components the base system must be fully and 100% functional within the
>> context of the base system only, but I couldn't.  Perhaps I missed it,

That is the goal, yes. But it doesn't always work that way.
For example, ELF-based ports weren't fully functional with just `the
base system' for, uh, years, and they won't all be, quite, until we
update the binutils in our tree to 2.9.1.