From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 14:53:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15523 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15518 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA28556; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:52:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:52:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: John Birrell cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh... In-Reply-To: <199812021158.WAA08572@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, John Birrell wrote: > ... and group. We should test for each user and group defined in the > src/etc files and add them if they don't exist in the installed > system. This would make bootstrapping FreeBSD sources on a NetBSD > system easier too. [Uh oh, I guess they're going to yell at me again. > They seem to react badly when I say these things. 8-)] Agree! On a related subject, is there any chance you can bring back the NetBSD bootstrap stuff and the NETBSD_SYSCALLS stuff? I've got NetBSD/sparc building FreeBSD-current userland save for some problems with the toolchain. I'm tracking down some problems in libc right now that cause things to segfault. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message