Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:44:27 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointing dependency introduced in 9.1 (from 8-STABLE) Message-ID: <523154BB.5060703@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y71xtcwWKCqzTZMJWkHNyjUsnfX%2BC%2BbFxhB0ALAzm%2Bk0mg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHu1Y71xtcwWKCqzTZMJWkHNyjUsnfX%2BC%2BbFxhB0ALAzm%2Bk0mg@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 12/09/2013 05:53, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Because I build a lot of embedded devices with serial consoles, I was in > the habit of hacking /boot/loader by commenting out a line in a Makefile > that enables terminal emulation > > /sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile: > > #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU > > and then in /sys/boot doing a make clean && make > > unfortunately, with 9.X, this breaks the compile. It seems a dependency > was introduced which requires the videoconsole code. I find this extremely > irritating. Of course, there's nothing to stop me (at the moment) from > compiling loader under 8-STABLE and installing it on 9.1 machines, but... > > Is there a better way now to stop the cursor from scribbling illegibly > across the screen? Hmmm... normally you should be controlling build options by setting WITH_FOO style flags in /etc/src.conf, although I can't see anything obviously relevant in src.conf(5). Did you raise a PR about this? Requesting a means to have a loader that only works via a serial console sounds like something that should be supported. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIxVLsACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwr9QCfSvdu6cBX8HR3nr6hu+RhrVrA f5kAniogQS0v/dwaRwbTjz7qnU97MmKH =vGn8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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