Re: Poor state of the build infrastructure.

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:33:46 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:54 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 09:29:48 AM Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >> What is going on here?
> >> Are we still in some kind of flux and people aren't done yet or is
> >> this the intended state by virtue of noone having anything left on
> >> there TODO list?
> > 
> > Sorry to ask a dumb question, but are you sure you did the make buildworld 
> > first?  Shouldn't that have errored if it couldn't build crt1?
> 
> The root cause problem was that MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX was not set
> to whatever it was set to during buildworld. That was easy
> enough to figure out when a bunch of things don't add up.

Ok.

> But neither problem mentioned in the email had anything to
> do with MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. Having to set the COMPILER_TYPE
> as part of an install is a bug. Entering a powerpc buildenv
> and having a compiler that builds for the host (or maybe
> just some default) is a regression.

Agreed on COMPILER_TYPE, but I think the path thing has always been true in 
make buildenv because we don't build cross-tools for things like 'cp'.

-- 
John Baldwin