Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

[ Jim Pingle wrote on Fri 24.Aug'12 at 23:07:30 -0400 ] > On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: > >> > >> I found two good primers: > >> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html > >>

Building the kernel and userland with llvm/clang

Hi I've been reading some information about building my system, FreeBSD Stable/9, using llvm/clang; the site I've been looking at is http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang. I was wondering about the benefits of doing so and also - and probably more importantly - if there are potentia

Re: Building the kernel and userland with llvm/clang

[ David Wolfskill wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 8:46:21 -0700 ] > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:32:03PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've been reading some information about building my system, FreeBSD > > Stable/9, using llvm/clang; the s

Re: Building the kernel and userland with llvm/clang

[ David Wolfskill wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 10:13:11 -0700 ] > As I understand the issues, FreeBSD uses a (somewhat modified) version > of the last GPLv2-licensed version of gcc, and there is strong incentive > to avoid "tainting" FreeBSD with a GPLv3-licensed version of gcc. > > Thus, if we wa

Question About Tracking the Stable Branch

Hi I am following 9 Stable. I have read the handbook information and I am now subscribed to this list and the svn-src-stable-9@ list. Even after reading the handbook, what i'm not clear about is this: I see individual commits being submitted to the source tree; do I: - patch and update

Re: Question About Tracking the Stable Branch

[ Freddie Cash wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 14:12:10 -0700 ] > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > In all cases, if you rebuild the kernel, be sure that the old kernel > > is saved to kernel.old so you can go back to it if there si a problem. > > 'make installkernel' does this)

Re: Question About Tracking the Stable Branch

[ Warren Block wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 17:28:15 -0600 ] > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > I've always updated my -RELEASE systems using the traditional method > > so it seems it's no different other than perhaps updating more > >

Re: how to update ports while using pkgng?

[ Freddie Cash wrote on Fri 14.Sep'12 at 21:54:29 -0700 ] > Read the pkgng faq online. There's a link to a patch for portmaster, and > info on what to add to make.conf. Can I ask: why is it still necessary for us to patch portmaster, can this not be implemented using an option during `make confi

Problem with zcat uncompressing man pages

Hi When I read 'certain' -- not all -- man pages zcat writes a small error to stderr when opening the man page; however, the man page does actually open. The message i get on the terminal is: zcat: error writing to output: Broken pipe zcat: /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz: unco

Re: Problem with zcat uncompressing man pages

[ Ulrich Spörlein wrote on Wed 26.Sep'12 at 19:02:58 +0200 ] > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:58:01 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Hi > > > > When I read 'certain' -- not all -- man pages zcat writes a small error to > > stderr when opening the man page