From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 9 7:16: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E97814BD2 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08862 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:16:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA52103 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:16:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C74B14BD2; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p25-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.122]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id XAA21195; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 23:15:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37FF4DA2.629AABA6@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 23:13:54 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Eivind Eklund , Bruce Evans , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse References: <199906171027.UAA03438@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com> <19991008192943.S71340@bitbox.follo.net> <19991009104902.F28001@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > In the ongoing porting of FreeBSD to other architectures, PPC, MIPS, > ARM, and SPARC come to mind, we also need something which enables > developers without access to either of these platforms to at least try > and see if they can build this. > > Dare I even touch the subject of cross-compilation in association with > /usr/src and it's proposed new configuration files and knobs? You can touch whatever subject you want. I'm going to try to separate the make.conf information, and then I'll submit the patches for review. People will think they are so horrible that there will be calls for immediate removal of my commit rights, less I continue to shame that august body with my presence, or inflict any damage in our cvs tree. BUT, while they get flamed, people might just spend 2% of their messages explaining how they should have been done instead, and a viable patch result from that. THEN you can add whatever knob you can get through bde. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message