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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:40:01 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/alpha-freebsd config.h src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/i386-freebsd config.h src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/ia64-freebsd config.h src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/powerpc-freebsd config.h src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/sparc64-freebsd config.h src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/x86-64-freebsd config.h ... 
Message-ID:  <20021022164001.710ED2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021022091019.GI3325@sunbay.com> 

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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:50:20AM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> > obrien      2002/10/20 00:50:20 PDT
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> >     gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/alpha-freebsd config.h=20
[..]
> >     gnu/usr.bin/tar      config.h=20
> >   Log:
> >   We HAVE_STPCPY now.
[..]
> "now" should be expanded to __FreeBSD_version checks in
> bootstrap-, build-, and cross-tools, and you know this.
> I am pretty sure that part of the above changes broke
> source upgrades from not-so-old -CURRENT and of course
> all of RELENG_4's (i.e., any systems that do not have
> strpcpy(3)).

I was thinking about this too.  This is exactly the sort of thing that makes
buildworld fail on older hosted systems where the host doesn't have these
functions which causes the initial bootstrap to fail.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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