From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 17 9: 6:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E970637B427 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7HG6Kq21567; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:06:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7HG6KW42463; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:06:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200108171606.f7HG6KW42463@harmony.village.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cross builds and upgrade path from 4.x are broken in usr.bin/file Cc: Bruce Evans In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:49:10 PDT." <20010817084910.D5916@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010817084910.D5916@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010810110151.B7988@sunbay.com> <20010810235643.Y23367-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010810173751.B60193@sunbay.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:06:19 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010817084910.D5916@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : We should decide if a cross-platform must be : installworld'able on the host, target, or both. Having brought up ports on other OSes, I've found the ability to install a target on a host to be useful. I think it should be a goal, unless it is really hard to do. However, if one of the two needs to be broken, doing the install on the target is more imporant. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message