From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 18:22:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0853937B41D for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:16:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5837E232CB; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:16:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 7595F9F264; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:11:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:30:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <20020212021139.7595F9F264@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:54:22PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > how about a port that uses the installed sources > > together with some uploaded parts to 'reconstitute' gcj as if it had been > > compiled wit the rest of the system. > > FreeBSD does a fairly evil thing: it takes the compiler > source code post-config instead of pre-config. I do not know what this means. I import [into contrib/] the bits before 'configure' has been run. I put various bits output by 'configure' in the build directory (ie, where the bmake Makefile is). > It's really an incredibly bad idea to import *after* a > config instead of before. What peice of software have we done this to? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message