Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:22:08 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "Pierre Y. Dampure" <Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world breaks in /usr/src/usr.bin/xlint Message-ID: <38843ED0.A71393AD@scc.nl> References: <21317.948010953@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:02:09 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > No. build-tools are those tiny little utilities that are part of the > > sources and are only used to build the sources. > > Okay, so how do we boot-strap lint? Ultimately, the build of the lint > libraries requires a working lint, which most people don't have at this > stage. However, the lint binary itself doesn't require boot-strapping. (backward) compatibility probrems are solved by the bootstrap-tools target. If we need xlint from the source tree for the build process, we need to build it in bootstrap-tools... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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