At 05:04 PM 3/13/00 , Brian Chase wrote:
>I agree with Chuck in that I think we should always be able to build
>-current from the most recent stable release of the kernel (assuming that
>the -current source is in a state which can be compiled).

So when a new version of binutils or egcs gets integrated into -current,
no one can use it until the new release?

>I don't know how one would ensure such a thing, but I don't see anything
>wrong with his suggestion.  I also think the idea of needing a recent
>snapshot to compile -current is brain damaged.

No more brain-damaged than needed a current version of config to build a
current kernel.

Ideally the build system should have a make bootstrap which builds everything
needed to build the system. (compilers, binutils, yacc/lex, and other useful
things).
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