Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:36:54 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad system call - world build Message-ID: <846.878114214@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:16:12 PST." <199710290716.XAA23260@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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In message <199710290716.XAA23260@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>, Satoshi Asami write s: > * If you want to get from 2.X to 3.X, you install a 3.X snapshot > >I'm afraid you are *completely* missing the point, Kamp-san. People >want to build -current on a 2.X fileserver so they can install it on a >3.X client. (Or vice versa.) It was working until the getcwd() >change went in. Peter thought he could fix it. We are now trying to >see why it doesn't work. I'm sorry Satoshi-san, then people should install a 3.X snap on a client, NFS mount their diskspace and make world that way. >I'll let Terry take care of the rest to educate you on the difference >of the host system and the target system. (I can't believe I'm saying >this. ;) You don't need to that. But imagine for a moment that we're talking about compiling a alpha-world on a i386 machine and you will quickly realize why the very thing you are complaining about is an instance of "the wrong thing to do". So rather than complaining about __getcwd(), you should either realize that you are asking for something we cannot currently do or alternatively make it so we can do it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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