From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 04:45:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12DE16A41C; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:45:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F28943D49; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:45:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5L4j4Bq052129; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j5L4j4vK052128; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:45:04 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20050621044504.GD93634@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Daniel Eischen , phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" References: <20050620202808.N26664@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050620202808.N26664@fledge.watson.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Daniel Eischen , phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:45:12 -0000 On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:29:19PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Daniel Eischen wrote: > I'm trying to remember the reason NO_CXX actually exists -- I believe it's > because our sparc64 port didn't have working C++ for some period of time, > so we didn't build C++ (and its dependencies). I created it in March 2000 to make GCC hacking and the process of upgrading easier for the GCC importer. > It could well be that NO_CXX is OBE, and we can eliminate it entirely? > I.e., C++ support libraries and applications are now a basic > requirement as DHCP is broken without them? It wasn't really designed as a nob for most people to set. Its use by NanoBSD is probably a misuse of it. There should be a NO_TOOLCHAIN or NO_TOOLCHAIN_CXX knob for what NO_CXX is probably being used for. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)