Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:07:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r216473 - head/sbin/geom/class/eli Message-ID: <4D0BB4F0.5090908@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4D0B801A.7050608@freebsd.org> References: <201012160036.oBG0aAEh003539@svn.freebsd.org> <201012161225.31459.jhb@freebsd.org> <20101216175536.GA52462@dragon.NUXI.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012161902450.39096@fledge.watson.org> <4D0B801A.7050608@freebsd.org>
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On 12/17/2010 08:22, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 12/16/10 13:04, Robert Watson wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, David O'Brien wrote: >> >>>>> Log: >>>>> Bump WARNS to 6. >>>>> >>>>> Modified: >>>>> head/sbin/geom/class/eli/Makefile >>>> >>>> FYI, this broke the tinderbox on arm, ia64, mips, and sparc64. >>> >>> Errr. Reverted. I built it on the architectures I had access to... >> >> For WARNS-related changes, I generally use "make universe" to test >> across architectures. This builds all of our architectures world + >> all available kernels, and seems the most effective way to avoid the >> above situations. (I've fallen into exactly the same trap...) >> >> The one thing to be cautious about is that make universe won't fail >> if an individual build fails, so you need to check the logs to make >> sure everything actually succeeded. > > The trouble with make universe is that it has been broken for months > and months now. ARM and powerpc64 are disconnected from the build > entirely, as are big-endian and 64-bit MIPS, and an increasing number > of ARM and PowerPC kernels depend on FDT tools not built by default, > and so do not build. Build infrastructure changes also make it appear > that the PowerPC GENERIC64 kernel is broken when it is not. This > severely reduces the coverage of make universe for problems like this. > > I have a patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/universe.diff > that fixes both of these problems, by teaching the universe rule in > src/Makefile about MACHINEs with multiple MACHINE_ARCHs and by > enabling the build of the FDT tools by default, which adds about 300K > to world. The way these are done is probably not optimal, but it is a > better than the current situation and is a good stopgap. With the > patch, all architectures succeed except for the ARM AVILA kernel, > which seems genuinely broken, and the various 64-bit MIPS kernels, > since 64-bit MIPS is not hooked up to the build yet. If I don't hear > any objections, I would like to commit it on Wednesday the 22nd. That works for me. As far as I can tell, doing the MIPS64 stuff will just take about a day of patiently fixing some breakage... Maybe I'll get to it over the holidays. Warner > -Nathan > > >
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