Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:24:35 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sparc64 boot_crunch.conf Message-ID: <20021101112435.H22677@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20021101155855.GA5673@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:58:55PM %2B0200 References: <200211010814.gA18EU6f080183@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021101104548.G22677@locore.ca> <200211010814.gA18EU6f080183@repoman.freebsd.org> <XFMail.20021101102937.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021101104548.G22677@locore.ca> <20021101155855.GA5673@sunbay.com>
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Apparently, On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:58:55PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:29:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On 01-Nov-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > ru 2002/11/01 00:14:30 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > release/sparc64 boot_crunch.conf > > > Log: > > > sparc64 does not yet support sysinstall(8). > > > > That's really odd considering I just installed on an ultra60 > > this morning using sysinstall off of a CD I built from make > > release yesterday. > > > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > Apparently, On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:14:30AM -0800, > > Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; > > > > > ru 2002/11/01 00:14:30 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > release/sparc64 boot_crunch.conf > > > Log: > > > sparc64 does not yet support sysinstall(8). > > > > Please try it before making assumptions. > > > I did. cross-release on i386 died because it tried to > run the sparc64 binary, rtermcap, which is the build-tool > for sysinstall. It is actually the bug in the "make > release" (object directories are created _after_ the > build-tools are), but it's normally not visible because > object directories are already built during the buildworld > stage of "make release". In this case, sysinstall is not > built on sparc64, according to usr.sbin/sysinstall/Makefile, > revision 1.236. > > I also tried building it on panther, but it may be that > its libraries are out of date, so either: > > 1. re-enable sysinstall in usr.sbin/Makefile and here > 2. apologize Please do not commit to the sparc64 parts of the release directory until you demonstrate that you have some interest in ensuring that the resulting releases are installable and work. Cross releases don't work because the endianness of the mfs root filesystems will be wrong. If you intend to fix that that's great, until then do not break native releases so you can build broken cross releases. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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