Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:25:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) Message-ID: <20080221152549.GB21518@team.vega.ru> In-Reply-To: <fpk4fa$gj0$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20080221131209.GA2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221140247.GC2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221143351.GP57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <fpk4fa$gj0$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:16:24PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > Shall the crossbuild for CURRENT work on RELENG_[67] ? If not, this is a > > huge regression. > > Why wouldn't it, unless you're building amd64 CURRENT on i386 > RELENG_[67] or a similar combination? > Using host ar(1) (/usr/bin/ar) for world builds is a bug. ar(1) needs to be either bootstrapped (if its code is platform-neutral) or built as part of cross-tools. That in turn means that we won't be able to upgrade to 8.0 (when it's released) from <7.0 (libelf exists only starting from 7.0). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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