From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 1:13:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C8915632 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA19471 for current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:49:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for current@FreeBSD.org (current@FreeBSD.org) To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:49:40 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <37F31614.95B0963A@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <99092922415900.64838@nomad.dataplex.net> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > There is nothing fundamental in the toolset which SHOULD care about the > underlying kernel. Compilers, loaders, etc. are just programs that operate on > the contents of files. Think of compiling the 4.0 system on a 3.3 system as a > simpler case of cross compiling. I should be able to compile FreeBSD 4.0/alpha > on a FreeBSD 3.3/i386 system. Sigh.. Yes, but if you need the tools you just compiled in your cross-compilation for cross-compilation itself, you'll have a big problem. And that's almost exacly what happens when building world... Using -DNOTOOLS should allow you to build a -current world without installing a new kernel. Stay focussed people! -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message