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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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