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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:47:31 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        cgull@owl.org (john hood)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0-BETA ELF upgrade builds compat cruft
Message-ID:  <199809230147.LAA03514@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19980922203526.47538@owl.org> from john hood at "Sep 22, 98 08:35:26 pm"

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john hood wrote:
> So...
> 
> I'm in the last stages of the elf upgrade on my recently sup'ed to
> 3.0-BETA box.  Apart from not having enough disk space, it has gone
> fairly smoothly, but for one thing:  It tries to do an aout build
> and a kernel build because it's only testing for `uname -r` -eq
> "3.0-CURRENT", but we're not -current anymore, are we? :)  We're
> not even -beta for very long, hopefully.

I'll change the test for 3.0-CURRENT to 3.0-BETA. I chose to make the
test fail for all but installed systems that report the same as what
the current sources build to be conservative. I made no attempt to
deal with installed versions of 3.0-CURRENT that haven't been updated
for 6 months (for example) - those people who install current and
don't follow current are on their own.

The theory behind doing a complete aout build first is to deal with
a system that is in an unknown state. This is over-kill, I'll agree,
but it deals with systems that have been hacked into a state that I
can't test for. The aout WORLDTMP is used instead of the installed
tools to build the elf world - that gives it the best chance of success.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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