From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 6 19:30:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B74A37B421 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g173UeI03579; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:30:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED Message-ID: <20020206193034.A3549@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C61EC5E.C3E6BF54@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C61EC5E.C3E6BF54@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:54:22PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:54:22PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > how about a port that uses the installed sources > > together with some uploaded parts to 'reconstitute' gcj as if it had been > > compiled wit the rest of the system. > > FreeBSD does a fairly evil thing: it takes the compiler > source code post-config instead of pre-config. I do not know what this means. I import [into contrib/] the bits before 'configure' has been run. I put various bits output by 'configure' in the build directory (ie, where the bmake Makefile is). > It's really an incredibly bad idea to import *after* a > config instead of before. What peice of software have we done this to? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message