Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 16:49:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: marcel@scc.nl (Marcel Moolenaar) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world issues Message-ID: <199910181649.JAA01262@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <38086629.848BC1BF@scc.nl> from "Marcel Moolenaar" at Oct 16, 99 01:48:57 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > If you make a change (like the signal changes)
> > that isn't backward compatible, then you can't bootstrap properly
> > because you can't execute what you build.
>
> You said a couple of lines above:
>
> \begin{quote}
> > Because when cross-compiling, you don't execute anything that you
> > build for the target system.
> \end{quote}
>
> I don't have anything to add to that :-)
You can't cross-compile a newer version for the same architecture
on an older version.
For one thing, this is not cross-compilation.
For another, given the compiler changes, the fact that when you
set DESTDIR you (inappropriately) override a number of definitions,
including the include and library paths, such that it's not
possible to use the new compiler on an older system in order to do
a "make world".
I first discovered this trying to use gcc2.93 quite a while ago,
and the problem with the build system remains uncorrected.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199910181649.JAA01262>