Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:02:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: Cross builds and upgrade path from 4.x are broken in usr.bin/file Message-ID: <20010817190200.B28846@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010817084910.D5916@dragon.nuxi.com>; from dev-null@NUXI.com on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:49:10AM -0700 References: <20010810110151.B7988@sunbay.com> <20010810235643.Y23367-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010810173751.B60193@sunbay.com> <20010817084910.D5916@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:49:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:37:51PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I can't believe I hear that from you, Bruce. :-)
> > Generation at install time is a damn bad idea, please see below.
> [...]
> > 1. This won't work for cross-platform installworld, since ./file
> > is targetted for a different platform. (My version builds the
> > xfile build-tool for the build platform and compiles .mgc files
> > in ${.OBJDIR}.)
>
> You are generalizing. It breaks cross-platform installworld when done on
> the build host. It does not break cross-platform installworlds when done
> on the target host. We should decide if a cross-platform must be
> installworld'able on the host, target, or both.
>
If we build at build time only, we always build on build host.
And that will work in both cases of cross-platform installworld,
as it won't build anything during install time.
Cheers,
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