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Date:      Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:37:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        rpaulo@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dim@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213845 - head/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm
Message-ID:  <20101016.223712.71141197.imp@bsdimp.com>
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From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r213845 - head/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:50:46 +0100

> On 15 Oct 2010, at 13:45, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:09:58 pm Dimitry Andric wrote:
> >> On 2010-10-14 21:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:19:19 pm Rui Paulo wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>>   Revert r213765. This is required because our build infrastructure uses
> >>>>   the host lex instead of the lex built during buildworld. I will MFC the
> >>>>   lex changes soon and in a few weeks this I'll commit again r213765.
> >>> Can't you make 'lex' a build-tool to workaround this?
> >> 
> >> That will not help for "cd conf/CONF && make kernel", apparently.  It
> >> will always use the host lex.
> > 
> > Well, yes, but that is always true.  build-tools are only used for
> > buildkernel.  However, if an 8.x lex cannot build a 9.x kernel, then having
> > lex be a build-tool (or cross-tool, ru@ knows which category better than I)
> > will let a 'make kernel-toolchain' followed by 'make buildkernel' of a 9.x
> > source tree work on an 8.x host.
> 
> Yes, but I was told that 'cd conf/CONF && make kernel' is a supported configuration (without requiring kernel-toolchain first).

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Warner



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