Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:27:48 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, mrcpu@internetcds.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OK, 99% success. Re: Argh, can't get -current to build under 2.2.8+ Message-ID: <199812292027.HAA20067@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199812291559.KAA20910@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Dec 29, 98 10:58:59 am"
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Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > The problem isn't with rpcgen. It is that the object directories were > > mangled by ache when he attempted to make the buildworld use the > > same directories as a manual make. I plan to fix that by teaching > > `make' to use getobjformat(3). Since it's the bushfire season, I don't > > expect that change to be readily accepted. Sigh. > > I think getting this change included before the branching will be > important. I think that people running -stable expect that they can > manually run make in the same place the previously did 'make world', > and expect the right thing to happen. I asked someone who always has an opinion on this stuff how strongly he'd object to me doing that to `make'. His answer was "very strongly", so I've decided not to commit the changes. I received enough "don't do that" email during the elf conversion time to last me for the rest of this century, at least. Sorry. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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