Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:34:41 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@hackerheaven.org> Subject: Re: kldxref problem Message-ID: <20020401163441.A99214@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3CA8E842.CC6A9D18@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:07:46PM -0800 References: <20020330205329.D51062-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3CA6BFE4.8296DF74@mindspring.com> <1017571105.901.4.camel@loki.ipv6.hackerheaven.org> <20020401003521.A88395@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020401111708.V99214@blossom.cjclark.org> <3CA8E842.CC6A9D18@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:07:46PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> > This whole argument ignores what the real problem is. The really
> > correct way to handle this is to use the kldxref(8) built in the
> > 'buildworld' phase. (It's bad form to be using any executables from
> > the base system if we have a full object tree.) Actually using the one
> > in /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/kldxref seems pretty ugly. The better
> > thing to do is to have a version in /usr/obj/usr/src/<arch>/usr/sbin
> > by making it a crosstool. The failure should not be ignored in this
> > case.
>
> Uh, that doesn't work incredibly well when the machine you
> are on is an x86, and the machine that the buildworld targets
> is, say, the Alpha.
>
> This came up in the first place because it's a cross-envrionment
> issue that needs resolving. The "workaround" exists because the
> workaround cops out on the cross-environment part of the process
> and spits out the warnming, instead.
An 'installworld' doesn't even come close to working in a cross
environment for a whole variety of reasons, so I don't see the
relevance.
The situation this question comes up is typically 5-CURRENT builds on
4-STABLE systems, not in cross-archetecture builds.
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