Thanks, Roger!
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Roger A. Faulkner" <Roger.Faulkner at eng.sun.com>
> Subject: Re: flag day: 6357230 specfiles should be nuked
> To: April.Chin at eng.sun.com
> Cc: roland.mainz at nrubsig.org, ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org
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> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:38:44 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: April Chin <April.Chin at eng.sun.com>
> > Subject: Re: flag day: 6357230 specfiles should be nuked
> > To: Roger.Faulkner at sun.com
> > Cc: roland.mainz at nrubsig.org, ksh93-integration-discuss at
> > opensolaris.org
> >
> > Hi Roger,
> >
> > Roland Mainz, a community member who is doing the engineering work
> > for the ksh93 integration project, has some questions regarding this flag
day.
> > I'm cc-ing Roland and the ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org
> > mailing list.
> >
> > Roland's workspace is currently based on build 37, but I will
> > be creating a workspace from the source on the current onnv-gate
> > and incorporating his changes.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > April
> >
> > Roland's questions:
> >
> > - Can I reuse the "mapfiles" generated from the *.spec files in the
> > current build (B37) and simply rename them to "mapfile-vers" ?
>
> Yes, that's how I did it. (You have to add the license/copyright notice.)
> Actually, you get 4 different mapfiles from the old spec files:
>
> spec/amd64/mapfile # from an i386 build machine
> spec/i386/mapfile
> spec/sparc/mapfile # from a sparc build machine
> spec/sparcv9/mapfile
>
> Hopefully, these will be identical (modulo sorting within each version)
> If so, you only need one new mapfile, common/mapfile-vers
>
> If there are small differences among the 4 mapfiles, please
> create a common/mapfile-vers with all the common stuff and
> separate <isa>/mapfile-vers files for the <isa>-specific stuff.
> (See usr/src/lib/libproc for a simple example)
>
> > - Do you expect any problems using the new scheme if the
> > build machine is running build 37?
>
> No problem. One of my build machines is running build 23.
>
> > - Would you be interested in reviewing the changes for the transition
> > from *.spec to "mapfile-vers" ?
>
> Sure. Whan you're ready, let me know.
>
> Roger
>
