Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:34:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <XFMail.20020315103426.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200203151127.g2FBRlM03640@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 15-Mar-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> ru 2002/03/15 03:27:47 PST
>
> Modified files:
> usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile
> Log:
> Embed boot images built as part of buildworld rather than the
> installed ones under /boot (which we may not even have in the
> case of a cross build).
Cool.
> This introduced chicken and egg problem - we need boot images
> early in the "depend" stage but they have not yet been built.
> Work around this by excluding the generated makeboot.c source
> from the "depend" list; it's okay because we hardcode all its
> dependencies explicitly. We actually lose the dependency bit
> on <sys/types.h> but it's probably okay too as the only thing
> we use is the u_char datatype and this is unlikely to change.
> After all, it's normal for sloppy cleaning to cause problems.
>
> beast.FreeBSD.org running 5.0-CURRENT alpha has been able to
> cross build i386 world with this patch.
>
> Prodded by: gallatin
Thanks for fixing this. Long term, I would like someone to fix
sysinstall so it reads these files out of /boot like we do for
boot{1,2} instead of hardcoding them into the binary. Junior
Sysinstall Hacker task I suppose. :)
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