freebsd-dev/tools
Warner Losh 33176cdc87 The practice of creating symbolic links is somewhat fragile. Always
make copies instead.

There's too many times that we can't run the new binaries with old
libraries. Making the links when things are known to be 'safe' is a
nice optimization, but a copy of all the binaries is only 30MB, so
saving the copies at the cost of increased support when new symbols
are added and used as part of the bootstrap seems to be unwise.

There may be additional optimizations possible here, especially for
!FreeBSD hosts. However, that's beyond the scope of the problem I'm
trying to fix with make failing mid-way through an installworld across
change r363679. This optimization there caused us to run a new binary
with an old library once a new make was installed due to the symbolic
link. One could just copy make, but then other binaries fail as well,
so rather than play whack-a-mole, I opted to take us back to the old
way.  Before r340157 or so we did copies (thogh of a lot fewer
artifacts), and we didn't have issues like this.

Reviewed by: arichards@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25967
2020-08-07 16:26:56 +00:00
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boot Spell LOADER correctly so we test lua build. 2020-05-01 17:50:26 +00:00
bsdbox bsdbox: remove useless linking against libl 2020-03-23 14:53:55 +00:00
build The practice of creating symbolic links is somewhat fragile. Always 2020-08-07 16:26:56 +00:00
bus_space Add support for Python 3 and make it the default. 2019-06-30 02:29:12 +00:00
coccinelle copystr(9): Move to deprecate (attempt #2) 2020-05-25 16:40:48 +00:00
debugscripts Enhance the 'ps' command so that it prints a line per proc and a line 2019-09-25 18:03:15 +00:00
diag In preparation for adding inode check-hashes, clean up and 2018-11-13 21:40:56 +00:00
ifnet
kerneldoc ice(4): Introduce new driver for Intel E800 Ethernet controllers 2020-05-26 23:35:10 +00:00
LibraryReport
pkgbase Add pkgbase METALOG parse/check tool 2020-05-10 16:11:19 +00:00
regression fsx: seed more randomly with the -S0 option 2019-04-28 17:27:06 +00:00
sched
test Add a makefile to build and run the tests for the bsnmp library. 2020-04-01 15:39:02 +00:00
tools add script to help figure out what man pages need MLINKS updated... 2020-07-16 23:05:18 +00:00
uma/smrstress Fix the smrstress build after r358400. 2020-08-05 17:26:20 +00:00
install.sh Fix handling -U. It does not take any arguments. 2017-11-27 02:28:40 +00:00
make_libdeps.sh Improve the library dependencies helper script in src/tools. 2017-11-16 15:26:39 +00:00
README
tinder.sh

$FreeBSD$

This directory tree contains tools used for the maintenance and
testing of FreeBSD.  There is no toplevel Makefile structure since
these tools are not meant to be built as part of the standard system,
though there may be individual Makefiles in some of the subdirs.

Please read the README files in the subdirs for further information.