In article <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905041030580.17398-100000@himring.draga.com>,
	Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com> writes:
> is a package allowed to work around poor build-tool decisions by the
> original software vendor?

Yes, why not.

> You seem to argue that we should not,

No, I only say that is not appropriate to prebuild files and hope that
they will look the same on all possible target systems.

> are we going to do anything about it?

I doubt that we will ever see something except a broken kludge by Berndt.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/