Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:56:28 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) Message-ID: <20080222085628.GA57428@team.vega.ru> In-Reply-To: <84dead720802212005u126dc5d0h6654a64fa1fcb581@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080221131209.GA2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221140247.GC2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221151627.GA21518@team.vega.ru> <84dead720802212005u126dc5d0h6654a64fa1fcb581@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:35:48AM +0530, Joseph Koshy 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. > > libelf should work fine on RELENG_6; we can merge it if needed. > I don't think it's needed. On systems that don't have libelf/libarchive, we can simply fall back to using GNU ar(1) for the purposes of build. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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