Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:49:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cross builds and upgrade path from 4.x are broken in usr.bin/file Message-ID: <20010817084910.D5916@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010810173751.B60193@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:37:51PM %2B0300 References: <20010810110151.B7988@sunbay.com> <20010810235643.Y23367-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010810173751.B60193@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:37:51PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> I can't believe I hear that from you, Bruce. :-)
> Generation at install time is a damn bad idea, please see below.
[...]
> 1. This won't work for cross-platform installworld, since ./file
> is targetted for a different platform. (My version builds the
> xfile build-tool for the build platform and compiles .mgc files
> in ${.OBJDIR}.)
You are generalizing. It breaks cross-platform installworld when done on
the build host. It does not break cross-platform installworlds when done
on the target host. We should decide if a cross-platform must be
installworld'able on the host, target, or both.
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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