Build tools

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Garrett Cooper <gcooper at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi Warner,
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 06:17:19PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>> In message: <20100626.172307.4959786928950356.imp at bsdimp.com>
>>>             "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>>> : Hey Ruslan,
>>> :
>>> : Maybe you can help me understand why the following are in the
>>> : buildtools list:
>>> : _share= share/syscons/scrnmaps
>>> :
>>> :     bin/csh \
>>> :     lib/ncurses/ncurses \
>>> :     lib/ncurses/ncursesw \
>>> :     ${_share} \
>>> :     lib/libmagic \
>>> :     usr.sbin/sysinstall
>>> :
>>> : There's clearly some side effects that I'm missing here...
>>>
>>> I'm missing that build-tools: target is built, and that those tools
>>> are then used to build these items.  It isn't that these items are
>>> built themselves.
>>
>> Is there anything else I'm supposed to answer?  :-)
>
> I think I see why peter@ added the sysinstall bit. If you look at the
> Makefile itself there's a built-tools target (which is fairly
> inconsequential as the rtermcap program is relatively small), and a
> dependency to check for an existing prebuilt fat termcap file and/or
> build a copy from scratch if the prebuilt one doesn't exist. I have no
> idea why it's in sysinstall's Makefile -- but it's there today (which
> means that one should probably tread around it with a big stick for
> the time being, and eventually be moved out if it's of value).

    Finally got things netbooted, and I verified that nothing blew up
with sysinstall missing from the box.
Thanks,
-Garrett