Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:27:18 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile Message-ID: <13342.915071238@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:58:48 %2B0800." <199812310158.JAA88604@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> This doesn't work since there's a chicken/egg problem. /boot/boot1 and > /boot/boot2 do not exist until an 'installworld'. However, the very > first stage of 'make buildworld' needs it when it builds src/lib so it > falls over unless they already exist. And even then, a new buildworld > uses the stale bootblocks from the last buildworld session. Yeah, I'm finding this out now - Bruce pointed this out yesterday and I've been trying to find time to give it some thought in between all the core wars we've been having. :-) > I don't know exactly what libdisk is used for so I can't suggest an > alternative. Are these the only bootblock source for libdisk? Or just a It's used only for sysinstall currently - that's literally it. Hmmmmm... Given that, and the fact that other clients for it have not surfaced in the n years that libdisk has been with us, I suppose we could move it right under sysinstall? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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