a port so there is nothing to be done on that side now.
Approved by: jkh
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued)
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 20:23:31 -0700
>decision is, I'll respect it.
Another chance to architect people's principles...I can hardly wait. Seems
quite appropriate for a Sunday - I just need to get one of those collection
plates (and money envelopes) so I can profit, too. :-)
Tcl stays in /usr/src for now, but it needs to be kept up to date; same
for perl. If Jordan doesn't have "setup" (written in tcl) ready for 3.0,
then tcl will be yanked prior to the 3.0 release (and made into a port).
As for the ports tree only supporting the last FreeBSD release, this seems
sensible to me. The "ports" have always been a moving target between releases
and the problem is only going to get worse when we expand to supporting other
processor architectures. In any case, Satoshi is and always has been in charge
of the ports tree and whatever he wants to do with it (within reason :-)) is
his decision.
Does this cover the issue completely? I admit to deleting messages in this
thread with unusual fervor (people have FAR too much time on their hands!).
There's a fair bit of reasoning behind the above, but since everyone is sick
of arguing about this, I'll spare you the analysis.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
with the object format determined by objformat. This prevents foot
shooting (a form of boot scooting for hackers?) where local changes
to /etc/make.conf or /etc/make.conf.local try to override OBJFORMAT
in an incomplete way.
- Moved most of the guts of Makefile to Makefile.inc1 to become the
backend for the build system.
- The new Makefile doesn't suffer from problems including the wrong
sys.mk because it doesn't use anything in there or bsd.own.mk. So,
from now on, the proper build command is just `make world' (or
buildworld).
- The intermediate makefiles called Makefile.inc0 and Makefile.upgrade
fiddle with the OBJFORMAT and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX variables so that
both aout and elf object trees can coexist. Makefile.upgrade contains
the aout->elf transition build.
- A cross build environment is now very close to reality. Specifying
TOOLDIR, setting OBJFORMAT and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX allow that.
See the comments in Makefile for more info.
