From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 15:27: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DE814C90 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19533; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA26277; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09543; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:24:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199909302224.PAA09543@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:24:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: Marcel Moolenaar "Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed" (Sep 30, 11:24pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Marcel Moolenaar , John-Mark Gurney Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Cc: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sep 30, 11:24pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: } Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed } As for me, I'm trying to define the problem as detailed and consise as } possible. I already have some specific thoughts and ideas. I'm thinking } large here: real cross-compilation capabilities and such (it may be } handy for FreeBSD/IA64)... While proper cross-compilation would be really nice to have, it won't solve the "make world" problem. It would get you through "make buildworld", but "make installworld" will overwrite the system binaries with new versions that use the new signal syscalls that the currently running kernel doesn't support. It would even be possible to cross-compile a new kernel, but it still has to be installed and the system rebooted before installing userland. In this particular case, the only thing cross-compilation would buy us is the ability to build (but not install) 4.x binaries on a machine running 3.x. It sounds like some folks would be satisfied just having that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message