Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:14:31 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Message-ID: <19990930161431.03330@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <199909302224.PAA09543@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:24:00PM -0700 References: <marcel@scc.nl> <199909302224.PAA09543@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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Don Lewis scribbled this message on Sep 30:
> On Sep 30, 11:24pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> } Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed
>
> } As for me, I'm trying to define the problem as detailed and consise as
> } possible. I already have some specific thoughts and ideas. I'm thinking
> } large here: real cross-compilation capabilities and such (it may be
> } handy for FreeBSD/IA64)...
>
> While proper cross-compilation would be really nice to have, it won't solve
> the "make world" problem. It would get you through "make buildworld", but
> "make installworld" will overwrite the system binaries with new versions that
> use the new signal syscalls that the currently running kernel doesn't support.
> It would even be possible to cross-compile a new kernel, but it still has
> to be installed and the system rebooted before installing userland.
>
> 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...
if people are interested, I can take a look at it... it'd be interesting
to be able to do something like; make prep-installworld; rm -rf
/usr/{sbin,bin,lib} /{bin,sbin}; make installworld and have it
complete... :)
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