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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:50:46 +0100
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213845 - head/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm
Message-ID:  <96F4E353-55A6-48E6-BA20-92720EC2C4E7@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201010150845.22576.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201010141919.o9EJJJIc034032@svn.freebsd.org> <201010141539.23573.jhb@freebsd.org> <4CB771A6.1070103@FreeBSD.org> <201010150845.22576.jhb@freebsd.org>

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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?
>>=20
>> That will not help for "cd conf/CONF && make kernel", apparently.  It
>> will always use the host lex.
>=20
> 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).

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo





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