Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:50:14 +0100 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, Arseny Nasokin <eirnym@gmail.com>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: r279278 failed to build (yacc: maximum table size exceeded) Message-ID: <20150227225013.GA66202@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <95891DFC-786D-4064-A9F9-7A8E434EC568@gmail.com> References: <CAO8GK0rbMADtgY7-y8aLOy8rpaSeXOuftZXUYFSaZ8xOTh45kQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150225154327.GD1161@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20150225182201.216f6fee@nonamehost.local> <54EE05EA.3030509@FreeBSD.org> <CAO8GK0oQ6ZkBV93ioO1n-YRbOn2ffW3AoyQXxumhWiicYNPHww@mail.gmail.com> <8E4B6A07-BEB7-46B9-BFD2-0B3F33162760@gmail.com> <54EE1E38.30106@FreeBSD.org> <95891DFC-786D-4064-A9F9-7A8E434EC568@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:11:29PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I was going to propose something a bit more radical — I can remove the > BOOTSTRAPPING conditionals and simplify the code on 10-STABLE / > 11-CURRENT. > Maintaining BOOTSTRAPPING is error prone and it’s not saving much time > in the long run in builds (it's taking longer to diagnose issues, test > them, and commit fixes which will break at a later date). I’ve been > bitten by this once because I don’t run ancient CURRENT/STABLE > (r279198) and here are a couple follow up commits bumping tools > versions in the past (e.g. r278975, r269662, etc). > Just a thought. This may be appropriate for contributed code that will build on older FreeBSD versions without issues, but I don't like being forced to add (mostly untested) compatibility code with usage of recent libc features. For example, utilities like cp and touch currently use utimensat/futimens without #ifdef mess or extra code in libegacy. The strict BOOTSTRAPPING conditionals allow removing bootstrap tools eventually, when building from such old versions as to need them is no longer supported. -- Jilles Tjoelker
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