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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:24:20 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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According to Christopher Faylor on 7/7/2005 8:05 PM:
>>Option B would be to write a C or C++ program to do the job of what
>>rebaseall currently does.  That's even more work.
> 
> I was going to suggest that but it requires that the user had loaded
> the C compiler which seems like overkill for this.

I think the intent of this suggestion was to replace rebaseall (the shell
script) with rebaseall.exe (the static executable), not to have rebaseall
output C source code, compile it, then run it.

But what was wrong with my idea of making rebaseall a #!/bin/ash script?

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