Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:30:19 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/btx/lib Makefile Message-ID: <20021118113019.GA529@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021116194100.A35622A88D@canning.wemm.org> References: <20021116065958.GA53717@sunbay.com> <20021116194100.A35622A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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--mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:41:00AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >=20 > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:07:23PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > ru 2002/11/15 11:46:41 PST > > > >=3D20 > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > > sys/boot/i386/btx/lib Makefile=3D20 > > > > Log: > > > > MFC: 1.10. > > > > =3D20 > > > > The getobjformat(3) API was broken in 5.0-CURRENT -- it no longer > > > > deletes object format options from the argument vector. Should > > > > this be fixed before 5.0 is out? > > > > =3D20 > > > > (This is to restore the ability to downgrade to RELENG_4.) > > >=3D20 > > > Actually, getobjformat(3) was supposed to go away the moment the gcc = folk=3D > > s. > > > Why does the world build care what the host environment is here? Wou= ldn't > > > this just be making it harder to upgrade from older OS's? > > >=3D20 > > This is now necessary to build a RELENG_4 kernel on 5.0-CURRENT: >=20 > Actually, this can be done a bit simpler by setting FMT to nothing. >=20 No, files.* portion of the patch depends on ${FMT} too, to pick up the correct files. > But that doesn't solve all the problems. We had to fix a bunch of inline > assembler to make it work properly with gcc-3.x. These changes have not > been made on RELENG_4. It would be dangerous to make the kernel appear to > compile using the -current compiler when we'd be ending up producing a > harmless looking kernel with code generation bugs. >=20 That was never my intent -- the intent was to make it possible again to downgrade to RELENG_4 from 5.0-CURRENT (using the RELENG_4's gcc). (This is now committed.) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE92M9LUkv4P6juNwoRAp6oAJ98xETDiHdMyx/c1noZgwiWqRmoUQCfcNzI UZTnrOZa1vSx+ewdNazvzUg= =HPgi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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