On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:35:09PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > On 18/02/2014 19:11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > Looking for help from the *bsd porters on this... We haven't seen a > > successful build of u-boot on kfreebsd since mid-2012... > > > > The short of it is a bunch of header files that aren't present on Debian > > GNU/kFreeBSD are required for building u-boot-tools. Upstream u-boot has > > essentially copied a bunch of header files from linux sources. The current > > best patch we have is to copy *more* header files, but this seems like a bad > > idea... Droppping u-boot-tools on kfreebsd-* would be a regression from > > wheezy. > > Are you sure u-boot is supposed to build on anything other than Linux? The > kind > of software package that embeds copies of Linux headers is not generally > intended to be portable...
Well, u-boot-tools could technically be useable on any architecture. Is it actually useful? Quite possibly not. If the best thing is to drop non-linux architectures, I'd be fine with that. I don't want to drop architectures from the packaging without asking porters first. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140218215436.GP5461@prl
