From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 17 8:49:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (dsl092-013-169.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F2937B408 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f7HFnAv95290; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:49:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:49:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bruce Evans , Warner Losh , 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> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010810110151.B7988@sunbay.com> <20010810235643.Y23367-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010810173751.B60193@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010810173751.B60193@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:37:51PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message