Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:21:51 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Message-ID: <19990930172151.26268@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:03:38PM -0700 References: <gurney_j@efn.org> <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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Don Lewis scribbled this message on Sep 30: > On Sep 30, 4:14pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > } Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed > } > > } > 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. > } > } I'm sorry, this is easy to fix... have a set of tools you copy to /ibin > } that are used for the install (all staticly compiled binaries hopefully) > } and run the install world out of /ibin... maybe include some binaries > } for system recovery to make sure... > > ... but as soon as you run the stuff in /ibin to install the new userland, > you won't even be able to run a shell script, because the newly installed > /bin/sh will be using the new signal syscalls. The install process will > have to include installing a new kernel and will have to be followed by > an immediate reboot. why are you trying to run a shell script instead of rebooting your computer after the installworld? you need to install a kernel+userland as a COMPLETE set... and the kernel needs to be build w/ the tools that were used to make all... it's that simple.. the hard part is making the tools work/build properly... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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