From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 17:21:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-195-54-213.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-195-54-213.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.54.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59F914D4E for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by adsl-63-195-54-213.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id RAA16065; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990930172151.26268@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:21:51 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Don Lewis Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed References: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:03:38PM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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