Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:41:00 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/btx/lib Makefile Message-ID: <20021116194100.A35622A88D@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20021116065958.GA53717@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:07:23PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > ru 2002/11/15 11:46:41 PST > > >=20 > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > sys/boot/i386/btx/lib Makefile=20 > > > Log: > > > MFC: 1.10. > > > =20 > > > The getobjformat(3) API was broken in 5.0-CURRENT -- it no longer > > > deletes object format options from the argument vector. Should > > > this be fixed before 5.0 is out? > > > =20 > > > (This is to restore the ability to downgrade to RELENG_4.) > >=20 > > Actually, getobjformat(3) was supposed to go away the moment the gcc folk= > s. > > Why does the world build care what the host environment is here? Wouldn't > > this just be making it harder to upgrade from older OS's? > >=20 > This is now necessary to build a RELENG_4 kernel on 5.0-CURRENT: Actually, this can be done a bit simpler by setting FMT to nothing. But that doesn't solve all the problems. We had to fix a bunch of inline assembler to make it work properly with gcc-3.x. These changes have not been made on RELENG_4. It would be dangerous to make the kernel appear to compile using the -current compiler when we'd be ending up producing a harmless looking kernel with code generation bugs. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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