On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:24:52PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org> writes: > > I think there's no emergency plan other than to reinstall "base" > > on these systems from some older snapshot? > > cross-compile on a different machine in the cluster, copy over the new > make(1), then use it to installworld over NFS. > Only if this machine is also Alpha. To tell you the truth, some bits produced by cross-compiles on different architectures are not ready for use on a native architecture. This includes binary files such as fortune(6) .dat files, NLS catalogs, etc. I haven't identified them all yet. Once I get my "modern" Alpha box, I will start working on a project that will eventually address this, so cross- builds and releases will produce the same binary files as on native platforms. NetBSD achieved a great success in this direction, so it shouldn't be too hard to fix. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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