From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 13:17:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1256B37C1A1; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by atlrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4D4977; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:17:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0.1) id NAA17143; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:17:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38D14F66.EA92A489@cup.hp.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:17:26 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Doug Barton , marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, Neil Blakey-Milner , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible simple install-info fix References: <20000315174906.A54067@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000316095311.E40068@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <38D12082.E2E07A8F@cup.hp.com> <20000316223149.D20685@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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