Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:19:04 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030129211904.GB5740@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030129125530.A83790@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030129051853.GJ1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <1043819769.648.52.camel@localhost> <20030129062558.GB1715@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <1043821970.648.60.camel@localhost> <20030129074647.GD1715@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <1043828377.648.67.camel@localhost> <20030129100411.GA3272@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030129115542.A79257@FreeBSD.org> <20030129204744.GC5416@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030129125530.A83790@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:55:30PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> [ Data: 2003-01-29 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ] > > > If we just make "machine" mean more of what it means now, then we're > > > set. > > > > But pc98 needs to be dealt with. Maybe a summary of what's been > > discussed would be a good idea. We've had a lot of mail with some > > confusion to be dealt with as well... > > Well, yes and no... If we make machine mean more of "where stuff is" > which is what it means now, then we can have "machine pc98" for it, > until it moves to the "new world order" (if ever) and use that to figure > out where files,options,ldscript,... And so on, fine. It obviously already > does the right thing wrt MACHINE_ARCH for how things work. Those are > defined by the native system's headers when make is built. And for a > cross-build, they're overridden. So if we just add that one tiny little > bit of logic to end up with /sys/$machine (for config), then pc98 is > fine even wrt being able to build outside of the source tree... Can you > tell me where pc98 is a problem here? I thought the idea was to have machine be usable for platforms, so as to have the mapping machine->MACHINE. This makes the keyword unusable for handling the pc98 case. I guess I was confused (now you know who needs the summary :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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