On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:57:54AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:46:00PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > >> All that said, I'd really like to be able to continue building head on > >> RELENG_6. (In my case I have a rather fast RELENG_6 box so I have been > >> doing my pre-commit testing there.) Do the changes we're discussing > >> here involve anything that makes that difficult? > > > > Possibly. :-) > > > > It depends on whether your RELENG_6 box is up-to-date with respect to the > > RELENG_6 branch. > > > > I think that as current diverges more from 7 it will be harder to keep the > > tree building on 6. > Are we talking about changing the build-/cross- tools? If not, it shouldn't be affected. > I think the problem here simply is that you are relying on the headers > to be installed on the base system instead of in src|obj copies. I do > not know if/how we do it for bootstrapping though. > If it's about build- and cross-tools, then yes, they rely on the host compiler, headers, etc. because they will be run on _this_ computer, using its CPU and the current kernel. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committerReceived on Wed Jun 25 2008 - 18:55:22 UTC
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