From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 2:22:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4C214DB2 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:22:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=spike.adm.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12AVma-0004i1-00; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:22:41 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spike.adm.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA64975; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:22:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <38843ED0.A71393AD@scc.nl> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:22:08 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: "Pierre Y. Dampure" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world breaks in /usr/src/usr.bin/xlint References: <21317.948010953@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:02:09 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > No. build-tools are those tiny little utilities that are part of the > > sources and are only used to build the sources. > > Okay, so how do we boot-strap lint? Ultimately, the build of the lint > libraries requires a working lint, which most people don't have at this > stage. However, the lint binary itself doesn't require boot-strapping. (backward) compatibility probrems are solved by the bootstrap-tools target. If we need xlint from the source tree for the build process, we need to build it in bootstrap-tools... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message