From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 4 14:15:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iscserv7.nepustil.net (ISCSERV7.Nepustil.NET [193.96.243.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA4114FA9 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thz@tuebingen.netsurf.de) Received: from peotl.tuebingen.netsurf.de (host-355.tuebingen.netsurf.de [195.180.140.155]) by iscserv7.nepustil.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16760 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:15:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (from thz@localhost) by peotl.tuebingen.netsurf.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01364 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:57:41 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from thz) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:57:41 +0100 From: Thomas Zenker To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Removing doscmd from the source tree... Message-ID: <20000104225739.A865@peotl.tuebingen.netsurf.de> References: <3871FC69.C99882E9@scc.nl> <200001041910.MAA61032@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <200001041910.MAA61032@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:10:35PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:10:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <3871FC69.C99882E9@scc.nl> Marcel Moolenaar writes: > : doscmd breaks cross-building, because it depends on X11 which obviously > : is not in the source tree (see below). I'm proposing to remove doscmd > : from the source tree and make it a port (emulators/doscmd). > > One can build it w/o X11. Doesn't sound like sufficent reason to me > to remove it. > Actually i never used it under X11, but it is very important for us to have it to run cross-compilers (which are only available as DOS binaries) integrated with native development environment under FreeBSD. I am not sure how many people use it this way. But if it is not build in buildworld, it will break after kernel updates and I will have strong wind blowing in my face defending our FreeBSD development environment at work. A possibility could be: 1. build it for i386 only, 2. build it via buildworld without X11, regardless if X11 exists. If I want to use it with X11, it is interactive and I can make it for X11 by hand - it will not break on compile runs at some hour at night. So, my vote against removing. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message