Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile)

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:56:28 +0300
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:35:48AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> >  With this change, we also bump the minimum requirement for source
> >  upgrades from 6.0-RELEASE to "7.0-CURRENT at some point" because
> >  new ar(1) requires libelf which is not available in previous
> >  releases of FreeBSD.
> 
> libelf should work fine on RELENG_6; we can merge it if needed.
> 
I don't think it's needed.  On systems that don't have
libelf/libarchive, we can simply fall back to using GNU
ar(1) for the purposes of build.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
Received on Fri Feb 22 2008 - 07:56:33 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:27 UTC