cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030416205506.GB10181 at sunbay.com>, Ruslan Ermilov writes:

>disklabel will soon be enabled on sparc64 too, once
>the endianness fixes are committed.  This is needed
>to cross-release architectures that use BSD labels,
>that is i386 and Alpha.

I guess we should paint the big picture, just to make sure we don't
get a confused bikeshed at this point.

The plan/goal, such as it is:

	All disk partition programs, should work on all
	architectures/endianess.  (presently: fdisk, disklabel,
	sunlabel, gpt)

	Some of these programs will need to grow "-m $architecture"
	like arguments, for instance disklabel which needs to be able
	to tell the difference between an i386 and alpha layout.  fdisk(8)
	may also need to learn i386/pc98.

	Make release tools will learn to DTRT, this may include KLD'ing
	GEOM modules.

As for the naming of bsdlabel/disklabel.  I am all for a repo-copy
disklabel->bsdlabel, with a compatibility symlink on alpha/i386/pc98.

Thinking a bit more about it, I think we should not symlink anything
else to that name on other architectures, but rather have a small
shellscript which explains what the tool is called on the present
platform.

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