From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 07:36:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EA016A400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: from mail.vega.ru (infra.dev.vega.ru [90.156.167.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24F613C465 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: from [87.242.97.68] (port=1622 helo=edoofus.dev.vega.ru) by mail.vega.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JSS21-0001l3-3b; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:09:17 +0000 Received: from edoofus.dev.vega.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edoofus.dev.vega.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1M79Gfc056952; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:16 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: (from ru@localhost) by edoofus.dev.vega.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m1M79F2F056951; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:15 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: edoofus.dev.vega.ru: ru set sender to rermilov@team.vega.ru using -f Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:15 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20080222070915.GB56282@team.vega.ru> References: <20080221131209.GA2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221140247.GC2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221151627.GA21518@team.vega.ru> <20080221181426.GM51095@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080221181426.GM51095@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:36:16 -0000 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