problem: world boot strapping from 7-C to HEAD with CDDL on sparc64?

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Tue Jun 24 09:00:08 UTC 2008


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.

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.


/bz

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