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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: V2.03 refresh note
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:44:06 -0600 (CST)
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> > By the way, we really need some compatibility environment variable 
> > (or something) to allow uname in 2.04 to provide 2.03 behavior ... 
> 
> Why?  What is the problem?

Older sources (read much of what's on Simtel today in source) won't build 
using the new uname without hacking.  Someday I see wanting to build some 
of these with CVS/2.04 release without needing to hand replace images like
uname.  It would be convenient to have a flag in the environment to fall
back to machine being "PC" instead of i?86.

When building with 2.03 this is OK (unless a new distribution requires the
new uname...), but contrary to popular belief we will get 2.04 released 
someday :-)