On 31 May 2018 at 11:19, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 31 May 2018, at 20:11, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 31 May 2018, at 18:04, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote: >> > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:58:50AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> >> On Thu, 31 May 2018 09:52:22 +0200 >> >> Gary Jennejohn <gljennj...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... >> > Whatever happened to the "run buildworld or kernel-toolchain before >> > buildkernel" requirement? >> >> That is still a requirement, yes. Otherwise, you might have outdated >> toolchain components are in your /usr/obj. >> >> Usually you can get away without doing that, and now that clang is the >> toolchain that's rebuilt (and that's not fast) people try to get away with >> it more and more... > > Actually clang doesn't get updated *that* often, but there is a minor > snag that one of llvm's config files (lib/clang/include/llvm/Config/config.h) > includes <osreldate.h>, so each time __FreeBSD_version is bumped, quite > a lot of dependencies get triggered... > > The version is only used for two checks: > > #if __FreeBSD_version >= 1000052 > /* Define to 1 if you have the `backtrace' function. */ > #define HAVE_BACKTRACE TRUE > > and: > > /* Define to 1 if you have the `futimens' function. */ > #if __FreeBSD_version >= 1100056 > #define HAVE_FUTIMENS 1 > #endif > > Maybe the first check could be dropped, assuming that backtrace() is > always available, but I'm not sure about futimens(). Is there any > supported version of FreeBSD left that does *not* have it?
10.4 is supported until October 31, 2018 but it might be worth making the change in -current ? -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
