[mini headsup] updating from 7.x to -CURRENT after lzma import

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:37:51PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> The recent lzma import has enabled libarchive's lzma support.  However,
> it have come to our attention that building -HEAD on earlier FreeBSD
> versions (specifically, 7.x after 700044 through 8.x before 800022) have
> been broken.
> 
> The reason behind this is that 'make buildworld' will build a new ar(1)
> binary which links to libarchive, causing build to break on these systems.
> 
> A hack-ish patch can be used to relieve this:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/patch-lzmabuild.diff
> 
> Alternatively, one can update to 8-STABLE before jumping to 9-CURRENT.
> 
> Another way to work around this is to build and install lzma static
> library before doing 'make buildworld':
> 
> 	cd /usr/src
> 	make buildenv
> 	cd lib/liblzma
> 	make obj
> 	make depend
> 	make  -DNO_PIC -DWITHOUT_PROFILE -DNO_SHARED all
> 	make  -DNO_PIC -DWITHOUT_PROFILE -DNO_SHARED install
> 
> We are working on a better solution for this and sorry for the breakage.

The project policy is to require at least recent STABLE_(X-1)
to build HEAD. The heads up is good thing, but functionality
"broken" is only provided on best effort basis.
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