Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 18:54:49 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world issues Message-ID: <38075C59.7E2670D1@scc.nl> References: <380716A4.20961526@scc.nl>, <19991015082059.C9753@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > > Known issues/problems: > > P1. the upgrade path is broken. > > P2. aout to elf seems to be broken too. > > P3. no cross compilation. > > P4. buildworld must be performed as root. > > P5. sys.mk pollution. > > P10. the compiler isn't built properly. The intergral libgcc needs half > of it build buy the compiler you are compiling the new compiler with, and > the second half by the compiler you just built. It is very hard to get > proper access to both compilers at the right places. IFAIK, this would > also affect cross compliation. Hmmm... I always thought that gcc was bootstrapping: with the current compiler, build the bootstrap compiler. Use the bootstrap compiler to build the actual compiler. I have to dig into this again... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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