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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
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Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile)
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:48:05AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > - Handle upgrades nicely: use GNU ar(1) during the build on older
> >   systems, and use BSD ar(1) on newer systems.  For now, always
> >   bootstrap BSD ar(1) on newer systems during the build (in case
> >   some bugs pop up), but after some period of testing, we can stop
> >   unconditionally bootstrapping it.
> 
> I would *really* like BSD ar to be used to build world regardless of
> host system version, at least on the tinderbox.  Isn't it possible to
> use GNU ar just for the toolchain, then BSD ar for the "real" world?
> Doesn't adding ar to bootstrap-tools take care of that?
> 
> Note that the tinderbox *always* cross-builds, even when building for
> the platform it runs on.
> 
BSD ar(1) depends on libelf and libarchive.  Do you know which
versions of them are safe to produce a working BSD ar(1)?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer