Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:30:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED Message-ID: <20020212021139.7595F9F264@okeeffe.bestweb.net>
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:54:22PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > how about a port that uses the installed sources > > together with some uploaded parts to 'reconstitute' gcj as if it had been > > compiled wit the rest of the system. > > FreeBSD does a fairly evil thing: it takes the compiler > source code post-config instead of pre-config. I do not know what this means. I import [into contrib/] the bits before 'configure' has been run. I put various bits output by 'configure' in the build directory (ie, where the bmake Makefile is). > It's really an incredibly bad idea to import *after* a > config instead of before. What peice of software have we done this to? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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