On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:48:05AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > > - Handle upgrades nicely: use GNU ar(1) during the build on older > > systems, and use BSD ar(1) on newer systems. For now, always > > bootstrap BSD ar(1) on newer systems during the build (in case > > some bugs pop up), but after some period of testing, we can stop > > unconditionally bootstrapping it. > > I would *really* like BSD ar to be used to build world regardless of > host system version, at least on the tinderbox. Isn't it possible to > use GNU ar just for the toolchain, then BSD ar for the "real" world? > Doesn't adding ar to bootstrap-tools take care of that? > > Note that the tinderbox *always* cross-builds, even when building for > the platform it runs on. > BSD ar(1) depends on libelf and libarchive. Do you know which versions of them are safe to produce a working BSD ar(1)? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committerReceived on Fri Feb 22 2008 - 09:52:42 UTC
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