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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2010 07:21:39 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [mini headsup] updating from 7.x to -CURRENT after lzma import
Message-ID:  <20100512042139.GZ83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4BE9EA4F.9010803@delphij.net>
References:  <4BE9EA4F.9010803@delphij.net>

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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:37:51PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
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>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> The recent lzma import has enabled libarchive's lzma support.  However,
> it have come to our attention that building -HEAD on earlier FreeBSD
> versions (specifically, 7.x after 700044 through 8.x before 800022) have
> been broken.
>=20
> The reason behind this is that 'make buildworld' will build a new ar(1)
> binary which links to libarchive, causing build to break on these systems.
>=20
> A hack-ish patch can be used to relieve this:
>=20
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/patch-lzmabuild.diff
>=20
> Alternatively, one can update to 8-STABLE before jumping to 9-CURRENT.
>=20
> Another way to work around this is to build and install lzma static
> library before doing 'make buildworld':
>=20
> 	cd /usr/src
> 	make buildenv
> 	cd lib/liblzma
> 	make obj
> 	make depend
> 	make  -DNO_PIC -DWITHOUT_PROFILE -DNO_SHARED all
> 	make  -DNO_PIC -DWITHOUT_PROFILE -DNO_SHARED install
>=20
> We are working on a better solution for this and sorry for the breakage.

The project policy is to require at least recent STABLE_(X-1)
to build HEAD. The heads up is good thing, but functionality
"broken" is only provided on best effort basis.

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