Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

From: Benedict Bridgwater (bennyb@ntplx.net)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 20:06:51 EST


> This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
> so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
> of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
>
> This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler
> would throw an undefined-symbol warning on BLK_DEV_ST. The temptation
> to engage in sarcastic commentary at the expense of people who still
> think CML2 is an unnecessary pain in the butt is great. But I will
> restrain myself. This time.

So a shortcoming of the CML1 tools justifies the CML2 language?

I guess the next bug found in the Python2 interpreter will justify
writing CML3 in FORTRAN.

Ben
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