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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:37:51PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > 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. > > 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. > > A hack-ish patch can be used to relieve this: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/patch-lzmabuild.diff > > Alternatively, one can update to 8-STABLE before jumping to 9-CURRENT. > > Another way to work around this is to build and install lzma static > library before doing 'make buildworld': > > 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 > > 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. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkvqLNIACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hH5gCePZTZGLlWMeJ2DiyJWXre8y6b YhcAoMAs3dOMrvvAtEyyL84R4UKojFrd =9E87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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