-static to CFLAGS). It just turned rev.1.5 into an obfuscated no-op.
As explained in the log for rev.1.5, testing should be done in the
host environment but there is a problem in cross-compilation environments.
As not explained in the log for rev.1.6, there was apparently a practical
problem with cross-compiling (makeworld should have set -static in
LDFLAGS but apparently didn't). Cross-compilation was especially
complicated because the relevant programs are test programs that were
run at beforeinstall time -- dynamic libraries might or might not exist
depending on the build options. The complications became moot in
rev.1.8 when beforeinstall was renamed "test".
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