From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 29 00:38:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA01702 for current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:38:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com (mail.trw.dk [195.8.133.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA01689 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.dk.tfs.com [140.145.230.252]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA06040; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:37:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.dk.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00848; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:36:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:16:12 PST." <199710290716.XAA23260@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:36:54 +0100 Message-ID: <846.878114214@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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."