From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 31 10:23:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA21913 for current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA21908 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA13648; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:23:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:23:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Warner Losh cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: core group topics In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Chuck Robey writes: > : 1) Satoshi's new Makefile. His makefile has been around plenty long > : enough for testing, and while several people have reported good results, > : I've seen no negatives reported at all. Will it get ignored or committed? > > Heck, you have commit privs, so you could do it yourself :-). That's > what I've been doing with the OpenBSD security fixes, just doing it > when I have time, and backing things out that escape my testing > procedures. > > Granted this is a bigger deal thing than my stuff. I felt that it's importance was such that only core should do it. Certainly I could do it. Let me ask Satoshi, he's core himself. > > : ELF > > If we do this, we should do it in 3.0. That's the perfect time > because all the libraries are changing major numbers (or most) and > people would expect much disruption. This would be a major diff > between 2.2.x and 3.x. > > Heck, at least integrate it into the tree and make it possible to > build the new stuff with a DOELF=yes in /etc/make.conf. That is the > next logical step, no? > > Warner > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------