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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:19:04 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms".
Message-ID:  <20030129211904.GB5740@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030129125530.A83790@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:55:30PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote:
> * De: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> [ Data: 2003-01-29 ]
> 	[ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ]
> > > If we just make "machine" mean more of what it means now, then we're
> > > set.
> > 
> > But pc98 needs to be dealt with. Maybe a summary of what's been
> > discussed would be a good idea. We've had a lot of mail with some
> > confusion to be dealt with as well...
> 
> Well, yes and no...  If we make machine mean more of "where stuff is"
> which is what it means now, then we can have "machine pc98" for it,
> until it moves to the "new world order" (if ever) and use that to figure
> out where files,options,ldscript,... And so on, fine.  It obviously already
> does the right thing wrt MACHINE_ARCH for how things work.  Those are
> defined by the native system's headers when make is built.  And for a
> cross-build, they're overridden.  So if we just add that one tiny little
> bit of logic to end up with /sys/$machine (for config), then pc98 is
> fine even wrt being able to build outside of the source tree...  Can you
> tell me where pc98 is a problem here?

I thought the idea was to have machine be usable for platforms, so
as to have the mapping machine->MACHINE. This makes the keyword
unusable for handling the pc98 case. I guess I was confused (now
you know who needs the summary :-)

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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