Re: RELENG_6_2 broken on latest -HEAD

On 5/24/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:52 -0400, Wesley Shields wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:23:53PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > On 2007-05-24 15:52, LI Xin <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > It seems that we can not build RELENG_6_2 world with -HEAD userland
> > > > anymore, after the gcc upgrade.  So the only way to build RELENG_6_2
> > > > releases is to create a chroot environment for now?
> > >
> > > I think this was never really ``supported''.  It may work, but if it
> > > breaks nobody is going to fix it.
> > >
> > > What *is* supported and should always work is building CURRENT on the
> > > latest RELENG_X branch.  But what you are doing is the reverse...
> >
> > The problem is that running a tinderbox on a CURRENT host and building a
> > RELENG_X branch is often done.  I understand it's not really supported
> > but it is a very nice thing to be able to do.
> >
> > Currently, a RELENG_6 build for a ports tinderbox running on CURRENT is
> > broken. :(
> >
> > -- WXS
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> Isn't it the other way around? You couldn't have a tinderbox building
> for 7.0 running on a 6.2 host, but its common practise to have tinderbox
> build 6.2 packages whilst running on 7.0 host.

It's never supported to run newer userland on older kernel
(see archive on current_at_ few days ago from me).
In fact, after recent thread library changes in current, you
can not run 7.0 userland on a 6.2 kernel.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan