On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:15:46PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > >1) FreeBSD 5.0 pre-release... does anyone know if it's GCC 3.x clean? > > How clean do you mean? The standard compiler in -CURRENT is a gcc 3.1 > snapshot.
Oh, that's probably clean enough to start working with. It definitely says to me that we should target a 5.x STABLE basis (at least) for getting into Woody+1 > >2) pmake (aka /usr/src/usr.bin/make) - the source tree for this on the > >various BSD flavors differ significantly, but all appear to share some > >basic level of functionality. How similar are they? I'm looking at taking > >over the pmake package, and wondering whether stealing just one would > >suffice, or whether I need to do pmake-netbsd, pmake-freebsd, pmake-openbsd > >(heck, maybe pmake-bsd44 for the origional BSD 4.4 version?) and allow > >folks to use /etc/alternatives to select what 'pmake' actually calls. > > Well, there's a residual desire that the makes should be compatible, but > various changes over the years haven't been co-ordinated. In 1996 FreeBSD > and NetBSD had the same make, for example, and more recently (well, last > summer) the OpenPackages crowd were trying to produce a merged version > which ended up mostly following the OpenBSD (heavily refactored) version. > The NetBSD make seems to be the most consistently maintained one. The > whole situation is rather crap. This is what I keep hearing. I'm thinking that perhaps what needs to happen (in the long term, anyway; short-term, I'm not going to mess with it too heavily, other than preparing the way for improvements, perhaps) is that we should pick one of the "unified" makes (OP make, bmake) as a preferred alternative (since they'll compile most packages, which is what Debian as a whole needs), and provide the system-specific ones, possibly even arch limited to the relevant arches (if it won't compile cleanly elsewhere). -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
