On Sep 2, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Maybe this is the source of some of my irritation with NetBSD and  
> legacy
> ports.  I actually grew up believing that you should _test_ changes  
> you
> make to code.

In general, yes, you should.  However, if you have a set of code that  
is known to work on at least one or two platforms, and the changes to  
adapt others are completely mechanical, then compile testing is  
generally sufficient.  The port maintainers can pick up any mess that  
might get made.

>
> I'm more than happy to make changes and compile test only.  After
> com(4), I have most of the tool chains already built.
>
> -- 
> Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
> Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
> General Dynamics C4 Systems
> http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
> Phone: 951 325-2134  Fax: 951 325-2191

-- thorpej