Re: Build Problem with latest CVS Version under OpenBSD 2.7

At 07:22 PM 8/14/00 +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Zak Greant wrote: At 06:44 PM 8/14/00 +0200, you wrote:

Warning people that their build tools are not sufficient would not hurt anyone! :)

    I'm in favor of adding a note to the CVS instructions. This
    issue does not affect end-users, so we don't need to aim at
    doing everything automatically.

    - Sascha

I would guess that the problems I encountered would have been no trouble for a more experienced unix user - so I can see your point. However, I would still like to be able to provide budding developers (like myself) some help on these kinds of issues.

    Proper documentation serves here better than the "we think
    for you" approach. If a developer cannot follow a simple
    documented process, he should reconsider his choice of
    language and/or platform.

    The config.status issue has shown that our developers are
    clever enough to think. Before we reach a relevant number of
    OpenBSD-based developers, OpenBSD 2.7 won't be around
    anymore.

Point taken - I will stop arguing now... - Zak