Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 23:26:05 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] reviewers needed for repairs to PicoBSD -------- Message-ID: <38E6F60D.3DCC63E4@mindspring.com> References: <200004012229.OAA39016@mindspring.com> <20000402093033.B59433@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 April 2000 at 14:29:02 -0800, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > PicoBSD's build framework been completely broken for some time now. > > Well, not completely. I committed a Makefile-based build back in > December, and it works. > > > Thanks to Omachonu Ogali (aka missnglnk) there are fixes waiting for > > review in the PR database: > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17737 > > *sigh* I'm sure that these patches improve things, but they're really > bandaids on a conceptually broken build process. I should have looked > earlier and pointed Omachonu at the "custom" target. I see he looked > at it and made a fix, which was due to the change of a kernel option. > I assume this means he found no other problem with it. > > There's no reason (apart from time) why we shouldn't adapt the > Makefile-based build to the other targets. This seems a much better > way to go than to maintain the old build scripts, which aren't really > BSD-like. Yeah, I agree (for the long term) Still, it is nice to have the others working again until such time as the framework issues are worked out; I've got a few folks back in Atlanta using the "dial" variant for some important work and they are happy to be building it again today. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to ripping out the broken variants in favor of custom or anything else that might help progress. I believe that having a more BSD-like build environment will help with future non-X86 PicoBSD's as well. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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