Subject: Re: subtle breakage
To: Mark H. Levine <yba@polytronics.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/12/1997 21:15:25
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Mark H. Levine wrote:
> I always thought of /usr/local as a place to put site specific packages.
It is.
> Is this shift because we're using binutils and those are "foreign" to NetBSD?
> If not, what's the philosophy here? It would help to know....
The alpha port does not use the NetBSD toolchain. It uses a separate
toolchain which is not part of the release (though I shall have a
stable toolchain snapshot available at the same time as the release is).
cjs
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