Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:15:04 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <20000719181504.A68029@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3975C491.70D86E0B@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:09:05AM -0700 References: <200007190441.VAA77617@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000719121321.A54935@sunbay.com> <3975C491.70D86E0B@cup.hp.com>
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:09:05AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > The log message is incomplete. Actually (and this is great) we now > > use bootstrap-tools first and only then saved binaries. We now do > > not use installed binaries during installworld at all. > > You're right. I wasn't completely clear. > > > Question. What if we just expand the list of bootstrap-tools with > > tools needed for installworld (the ones we now save)? The point here > > is that (potentially) every tool that we use during installworld > > could have bootstrapping problems. > > Correct, but there's a different incompatibility I'm trying not to hit > upon: source incompatibility. It is not guaranteed that we can build all > the tools in the first place. Currently, it seems that upgrading from > 2.2.8 cannot be done as-is, because we have gperf in the bootstrap-tools > and the native 2.2.8 C++ compiler doesn't grok its source. Building gcc > in the bootstrap-tools might solve this, but makes it all a bit more > hairy (we need certain tools in bootstrap-tools because we need to be > able to build gcc in the cross-tools). > So do you mean that (in its current shape) we are able to build all 5.0-CURRENT bootstrap-tools under 2.2.8?? > The bottomline: Use what we can and rebuild only when necessary. > > > Particularly, I don't see why we need to save /usr/bin/install-info. > > It is already built and will be preffered as bootstrap-tools's tool. > > Oops. I forgot that we now build install-info... I'll fix it ASAP. > Good. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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