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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:13:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xlint/llib Makefile
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010425011303.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104251611310.21711-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On 25-Apr-01 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> Err, isn't the point of making lint a build-tool so that you can use the
>> build
>> tool here rather than the lint binary you just built?  This breaks cross
>> builds. :(
> 
> It would have to be a bootstrap tool for that.  It certainly should be a
> bootstrap tool ... I discussed this in more detail in private mail.

Ah, ok.

>> You should just be able to use the 'lint' in your path since that should map
>> to
>> the 'lint' program in the build-tools.
> 
> Not quite.  `lint' is just the driver stage.  It has hard-coded paths
> to /usr/libexec/lint[1-2], so the new version of lint mostly doesn't
> get used whether or not `lint' is run from the obj dir or according
> to the path.

Ugh, gross.  I guess the bootstrap version of lint will need to be hacked
somehow to use bootstrap verisons of those?

> Bruce

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