Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:15 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) Message-ID: <20080222070915.GB56282@team.vega.ru> In-Reply-To: <20080221181426.GM51095@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20080221131209.GA2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221140247.GC2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221151627.GA21518@team.vega.ru> <20080221181426.GM51095@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:14:26AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:16:27PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >With this change, we also bump the minimum requirement for source > >upgrades from 6.0-RELEASE to "7.0-CURRENT at some point" because > >new ar(1) requires libelf which is not available in previous > >releases of FreeBSD. > > Can't libelf be added to the bootstrap toolchain if it doesn't already exist? > Theoretically yes, but then there's also libarchive, and I'm not sure which versions of libelf/libarchive were tested to work with BSD ar(1). I have a different idea of how to fix things. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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