On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:54:22PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > how about a port that uses the installed sources > > together with some uploaded parts to 'reconstitute' gcj as if it had been > > compiled wit the rest of the system. > > FreeBSD does a fairly evil thing: it takes the compiler > source code post-config instead of pre-config.
I do not know what this means. I import [into contrib/] the bits before 'configure' has been run. I put various bits output by 'configure' in the build directory (ie, where the bmake Makefile is). > It's really an incredibly bad idea to import *after* a > config instead of before. What peice of software have we done this to? -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
