From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 15 7:34:49 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5220C37B477 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 07:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17646 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 15:34:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Mar 2002 15:34:24 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2FFYpv39814; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:34:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200203151127.g2FBRlM03640@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:34:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message