From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 9 14:47:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09008 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA08982; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.8.0/8.7.3) id HAA22166; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 07:17:24 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199610092147.HAA22166@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: CVSup In-Reply-To: <199610092116.RAA09048@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "Oct 9, 96 05:16:17 pm" To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 07:17:24 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, asami@freebsd.org, jdp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As everyone seems to have missed one of the obvious (and main comments) of my > original post, let me restate it. > > The FreeBSD package (ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/packages-current) requires the > Modula Package be installed first. This seems rediculus, as it should be > statically linked. > > I was not asking where the bindist was, I was not asking anything else. I was > stating an obvious truth, as I was (At that time) in the middle of building a > cvsup for myself. The original post intended to point out a problem, and > hopefully resolve it before it bit someone else. Hmm.. ok... point taken. I'm not sure that your idea of statically linking is the solution, but its not a bad idea... at least statically linking in the modula components. Looking at this from a "can do" viewpoint, we know that all the packages are built from a "make package" on the ports tree. Now if a user wants to "build" cvsup themselves we can assume that they know what they are doing, and want the unstatic version(??). But it would be nice if "make package" statically linked in the modula library.. Quickly looking at the make package target the only way it seems to do this is if the port statically links with the modula bits. Might pay to run this past John Polstra (jdp@freebsd.org) and Satoshi (asami@freebsd.org) and see what they think, and what their opinions are. (cc'd appropriately) Regards, Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!