Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:43:10 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <20020315164310.GA88631@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020315103426.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200203151127.g2FBRlM03640@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.20020315103426.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:34:26AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> 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. :)
>
That will also require some tweaks to release/Makefile, but indeed
this is a very good idea.
Cheers,
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