From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 08:56:33 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 61ECD16A401 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:56:33 +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 1ED9313C457 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: from [87.242.97.68] (port=55442 helo=edoofus.dev.vega.ru) by mail.vega.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JSThm-0006bo-BW; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:56:30 +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 m1M8uTKv064613; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:56:29 +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 m1M8uS19064612; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:56:28 +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 11:56:28 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Joseph Koshy Message-ID: <20080222085628.GA57428@team.vega.ru> References: <20080221131209.GA2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221140247.GC2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221151627.GA21518@team.vega.ru> <84dead720802212005u126dc5d0h6654a64fa1fcb581@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84dead720802212005u126dc5d0h6654a64fa1fcb581@mail.gmail.com> 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 08:56:33 -0000 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