native and foreign architectures and comparing products).
They eliminate most of the differences caused by different
object directory paths, timestamping, and identification.
(Note WORLDTMP was renamed to ${OBJTREE}${.CURDIR}/tmp.)
introducing the disk formats for _RuneLocale and friends.
The disk formats do not have (useless) pointers and have 32-bit
quantities instead of rune_t and long. (htonl(3) only works
with 32-bit quantities, so there's no loss).
Bootstrap mklocale(1) when necessary. (Bootstrapping from 4.x
would be trivial (verified), but we no longer provide pre-5.3
source upgrades and this is the first commit to actually break
it.)
FreeBSD. This method attempts to centralize all the necessary hacks
or work arounds in one of two places in the tree (src/Makefile.inc1
and src/tools/build). We build a small compatibility library
(libbuild.a) as well as selectively installing necessary include
files. We then include this directory when building host binaries.
This removes all the past release compatibilty hacks from various
places in the tree. We still build on tip of stable and current. I
will work with those that want to support more, although I anticipate
it will just work.
Many thanks to ru@, obrien@ and jhb@ for providing valuable input at
various stage of implementation, as well as for working together to
positively effect a change for the better.
