From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 9:44:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9164737B41C; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id g3OGi7478446; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:44:07 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, matusita@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020424151201.GA94711@sunbay.com> References: <20020424151201.GA94711@sunbay.com> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 23 From: Makoto Matsushita To: ru@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross-platform releases Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:44:04 +0900 Message-Id: <20020425014404T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> 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 ru> This is just a heads up for anyone interested that I have just ru> started working on a cross-platform "make release" issue so that ru> "make release TARGET_ARCH=alpha" on an i386 box would produce a ru> working Alpha release. Wonderful! If there are any tasks I can help for you, feel free to email me. My buildboxes are awaiting more jobs to do, but myself is awaiting more spare times to do :-( ru> The next task will be to support cross-branch "make releases" ru> so that a 4.x box could be used to produce a 5.0 snapshot. It seems that there are 2 problems; some syscall issue, and md/vn device issue. However, IIRC, the latter problem was already resolved by nyan-san. ru> Supporting non-root "make release"s might be a good idea too. This requires that non-root uses vn/md device... -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message