From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 10:54:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FE537B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:54:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435BBAEC; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:54:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id KAA08588; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:54:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A084FCF.5183DEE9@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:54:07 -0500 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: source upgrading: bootstrap library References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > > > I tend to favor the latter and plan to implement it. Let me know if you > > have any objections, alternatives, additions or questions. > > I think I prefer to handle each case separately, at least at first. Can you elaborate? > There is also a problem with header files. E.g., the current mtree can't > be compiled under FreeBSD-2.1.5, because the members of struct timespec > were didn't have the braindamaged standard spelling in 2.1.5. Does this only occur on pre-2.2 systems? If so, I suggest to delay the issue (or ignore it completely) until after we can upgrade from at least 2.2.5. Any older versions have the make problem and I think that makes a nice barrier. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message