On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce Evans
>writes:
> : > So I should back this out? I didn't do a 3.3 buildworld.
> :
> : Of course.
>
> OK. I've done the build on 3.3 and it works.
>
> It does break cross compilation. There is a tool (fini) that gets
> built on the host with the host libraries and run on the host to
> generate some files and this during the last phase of the build.
Right.
> Maybe the right thing to do for make depend is to somehow arrange for
> all things needed to build depend get built with the host compiler and
> if host != target they get deleted before the actual build with the
> tools. Of course, hours before the code freeze is an inauspicious
> time to make such sweeping declaration. This automates much of the
> tools problem...
David committed Marcel's workaround for the problem with make depend in
f771 2 weeks ago. I don't know why you still have problems.
Deleting things is another workaround. The correct fix is to build
tools in separate directories and not build these directories for
cross-building.
> I will back it out until after 4.0 so this change can be analized in
> more detail.
Thanks.
Bruce
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