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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:10:33 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x
Message-ID:  <41D32B59.3020108@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <41D32A23.1000304@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> ports/sysutils/makefs (borrowed 
>> shamelessly
>> from NetBSD).
 >
> yep that's it.. we REALLY should use this in the release.

Last time this discussion arose, the conclusion was that we didn't want
to use ports in the release-building process if it could be avoided; and
I didn't (and still don't) have time to clean it up appropriately for
inclusion in the base system.  (My "port" includes NetBSD's make and a
number of libraries because I figured it was easier to include those
than it would be to rewrite the Makefiles.)

> does it work for machines other than i386 (e.g. machines with big-endian 
> UFS)?

I don't have any personal experience here... but since this code came from
NetBSD, I certainly hope so!

Colin Percival



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