Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 12:59:33 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make world Message-ID: <199704091659.MAA19396@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Apr 1997 03:27:58 %2B1000." <19970409032758.35315@usn.blaze.net.au> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407165836.15555A-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu> <19970409032758.35315@usn.blaze.net.au>
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> On Apr 04, 1997 at 05:06:56PM, Chuck Robey wrote: > > You know, there are several things installed by a make world that I > > *really* wish I could condition out via a make veriable: > > > > perl : I want to maintain my version at 5.003, not 4.036 > > groff : I want groff install to stop overwriting the > > /usr/share/groff_font/devlp/download file, so all > > those neat fonts I bought from WC stay installed. > > tcl : I want my version at 8.0a3, not the _old_ 7.5 > > > > There are others, probably, but these come immediately to mind. > > Don't forget sendmail. :) We also have a rather ederly xntp in the FreeBSD distirbution. The newer one has my fixed to use kernel-based timestamps (which I did on FreeBSD, and is in our kernel now). As far as I know, FreeBSD is unique in this capability, but our xntp doesn't know how to use it. The newer versions just compile out-of-the-box on FreeBSD, so I don't know how hard it is to update the one in our tree. I've had very mixed results getting stuff merged into the tree - the Brooktree 848 changes I've done got merged because someone with commit privs was also actively involved in the process. The socket-timestamp kernel code got in. But after two attempts to get simple changes to /usr/sbin/moused in (which would keep my mouse working when doing 'make world', sigh) and a one-liner to /usr/src/sbin/mount/getmntopts.c to fix a bug introduced recently introduced that breaks cfs, I dunno what to think. louie
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