Don Lewis scribbled this message on Sep 30:
> On Sep 30, 4:14pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> } Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed
> } >
> } > In this particular case, the only thing cross-compilation would buy us
> } > is the ability to build (but not install) 4.x binaries on a machine
> } > running 3.x. It sounds like some folks would be satisfied just having
> } > that.
> }
> } I'm sorry, this is easy to fix... have a set of tools you copy to /ibin
> } that are used for the install (all staticly compiled binaries hopefully)
> } and run the install world out of /ibin... maybe include some binaries
> } for system recovery to make sure...
>
> ... but as soon as you run the stuff in /ibin to install the new userland,
> you won't even be able to run a shell script, because the newly installed
> /bin/sh will be using the new signal syscalls. The install process will
> have to include installing a new kernel and will have to be followed by
> an immediate reboot.
why are you trying to run a shell script instead of rebooting your
computer after the installworld? you need to install a kernel+userland
as a COMPLETE set... and the kernel needs to be build w/ the tools that
were used to make all... it's that simple..
the hard part is making the tools work/build properly...
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