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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT dcc DOT unicamp DOT br>
Date: 13 Jan 1999 18:04:50 -0200
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On Jan 13, 1999, "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

>> > If it works in that particular case, then that is good, and should
>> > probably be done.  However, as Alexandre pointed out, use of
>> > /dev/null in autoconf/automake/libtool/*.m4 is all-pervasive and if
>> > we try to change it, it will kill us all (and our families).

:-)

> Alexandre, is this worth a note in the PORTing section of libtool?

I don't think so.  /dev/null is supported on all targets that need
it.  If we ever find a system that doesn't support /dev/null properly, 
we should take care of that at that point, not now.  IMHO, of course :-)

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil