Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:33:26 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" Message-ID: <20080112223326.GO79270@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20080112143703.GA1748@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080111194036.GA28896@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20080112072138.GB1016@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080112141201.GL79270@cicely12.cicely.de> <20080112143703.GA1748@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se>
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:37:03PM +0100, Kai Wang wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:12:02PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > But then it is only used for building the toolchain, not for building > > the world/universe itself. > > Did you try adding it into the toolchain for your make universe tests? > > I don't know how sensitive ar is to cross builds, but of course it is > > important for us to support cross builds. > > I mentioned that I've done "make universe" in the first post, I meant > that I've test the build of ar itself in various archs. > > Do you mean that I should use "BSD ar" to perform a "make world/universe", > observing the process and examing the resulting library files generated? Yes - that's what I ment. > Yes. That's what I am doing now :) , but it takes time since "make universe" > is not so fast on a slow laptop... Great. I can't await having another GPL tool being obsoleted :) -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de
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