On 27-Mar-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:34:26AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> On 15-Mar-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> > ru 2002/03/15 03:27:47 PST
>> >
>> > Modified files:
>> > usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile
>> > Log:
>> > Embed boot images built as part of buildworld rather than the
>> > installed ones under /boot (which we may not even have in the
>> > case of a cross build).
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> > This introduced chicken and egg problem - we need boot images
>> > early in the "depend" stage but they have not yet been built.
>> > Work around this by excluding the generated makeboot.c source
>> > from the "depend" list; it's okay because we hardcode all its
>> > dependencies explicitly. We actually lose the dependency bit
>> > on <sys/types.h> but it's probably okay too as the only thing
>> > we use is the u_char datatype and this is unlikely to change.
>> > After all, it's normal for sloppy cleaning to cause problems.
>> >
>> > beast.FreeBSD.org running 5.0-CURRENT alpha has been able to
>> > cross build i386 world with this patch.
>> >
>> > Prodded by: gallatin
>>
>> Thanks for fixing this. Long term, I would like someone to fix
>> sysinstall so it reads these files out of /boot like we do for
>> boot{1,2} instead of hardcoding them into the binary. Junior
>> Sysinstall Hacker task I suppose. :)
>>
> Here's the patch. Please review.
Looks good to me assuming you've tested it. :)
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