From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 2 15:18:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC1B37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:18:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0045.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.45] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16sXXO-0001yl-00; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:18:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3CAA3C12.F1C74FCA@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:17:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Emiel Kollof Subject: Re: kldxref problem References: <20020330205329.D51062-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3CA6BFE4.8296DF74@mindspring.com> <1017571105.901.4.camel@loki.ipv6.hackerheaven.org> <20020401003521.A88395@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020401111708.V99214@blossom.cjclark.org> <3CA8E842.CC6A9D18@mindspring.com> <20020401163441.A99214@blossom.cjclark.org> <3CA912A8.167AFEDB@mindspring.com> <20020402025701.F99214@blossom.cjclark.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > The problem is that the kldxref deserves to get its own tools > > build, so that there is a version that works against 5.x code > > that can be built on 4.x (or NetBSD or Linux or Solaris or > > whatever). > > It builds fine on 4.x as long as you use the correct headers. It > appears to run fine on 4.x too. It's just that you pretty much need to > add a new stage to the build process. A stage where one builds > cross-tools with the new header files. I think we would all be happy with this. I think it's a requirement for the 5.x rollout, if people are going to be using buildworld to move themselves forward from 4.x. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message