Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:17:26 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible simple install-info fix Message-ID: <38D14F66.EA92A489@cup.hp.com> References: <20000315174906.A54067@mithrandr.moria.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151405540.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <20000316095311.E40068@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <38D12082.E2E07A8F@cup.hp.com> <20000316223149.D20685@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > This is a bug. If install-info is installed, then it isn't a build tool. > > Build tools are programs/scripts that are needed to build the sources > > only. They are not installed. Since install-info is installed, it can't > > be a build tool. this means that we either use the installed version or > > use a freshly built version made during the bootstrap stage. > > > Silly me, I meant bootstrap-tools. There are so many *-tools stages, > that one is easy to get lost :-) Yeah. I thought about adding another one just for the unadultery heck of it, but changed my mind :-) > > > Second, less important (IMHO), is a cross > > > building issue. Consider the case, when you want to build 4.0 alpha > > > world on 3.x i386 system, and then install it (world) on alpha running 3.x. > > > It was discussed about month ago on -current... > > > > I don't consider this less important. Having the ability to do cross > > builds helps maintaining FreeBSD on multiple platforms and also helps in > > porting to new platforms. > > > Umm, I was unclean. It seems to be of less priority. Ah, ok. I misunderstood what you ment here. To be a bit more concrete (rather than being chatty): I hope to find the time soon to update the patch to match the current source tree (this requires some testing time/resources) after which we can all review it again before I commit it. To speed things up, you are of course welcome to be pro-active (damn, my work environment already gets to me :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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