Hi Steve,

> Waldek has pointed out that it is possible to build on a system without a 
> working corepop by running the shell programs mklibpop and poplink_cmnd.  
> That is what I, and I imagine Steve Leach, did under kernel 5.8.  Wouldn't 
> that be more reliable than having to depend on new systems keeping versions 
> of old libraries?

Yes, that is what I did.

At the moment I believe we need a repository of well-documented corepop's for 
building from source - it's a lot easier to archive a single file than a 
collection. Having said that, the transition to a new kernel is going to be 
handled perfectly well by this route. 

Steve

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