On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Takeshi Shibagaki wrote:

> Do you need how to update from source? I tried some methods but it is
> easy and sure that a method updates from binary snapshot.

Yes. People will want to upgrade from source, and it's easy enough to
do, so why not support it?

> fredb> By the way, I don't think we should switch until final resolution of
> fredb> PR's port-m68k/15528 and port-mac68k/15514.
>
> In port-m68k/15514, thorpej-san will work fine though I recognize some
> problems around gnu toolchain.

I don't understand what you're saying. As far as I know, a compile
(cross-compile?) in gnu/lib/libbfd still fails, because of VERSION being
incorrectly re-defined.

> # I have never done i386 => m68k cross compile. There is no large problem
> # in self compile but trivial one exists.

It'll all be just fine, once the fixes are tested and committed and
port-m68k/15514 closed. It's just that, an announcement of a formal
switch is going to lead to a lot of people installing snapshots and
upgrading from source, and we need to have all our ducks in a row. [Hope
that makes sense; I don't quite know how else to put it. :-)]

> In port-mac68k/15528, umm, I'm also going to analize.

OK! I suggest you start by looking at sys/.../mac68k/disksubr.c, to see
how the disklabel really works, and then see what sysinstall is doing
with it.

Frederick