On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:52:36 -0400 James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > The webrev is found at > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jmcp/6864230/webrev.open/ > > I skimmed through some of the files, and it looks good. Thankyou > One question about it, though: when I fixed the build process so that > non-root builds became possible, I was obliged (by the C-team) to leave > the possibility of doing traditional root builds in place. I felt it > should be removed entirely as a relic of the past, but there were many > who believed that it was important to be able to have a 'complete' image > of the system in $ROOT. I gave in, which is why you see OWNER and GROUP > and $(CH) in the makefiles. > Has that changed? Have the remaining gatestaff given up on the > importance of having owner/group in $ROOT match the real system? If so, > then that's great to hear. I'll have to confer with the rest of NV core and PIT, but I don't see any need for that to be the case. > (Oh, and my condolences in advance: by touching this, you're committing > yourself to answering every question about building Solaris that anyone > ever has. :->) Heh... I get that as GK anyway :-) Thankyou again, James -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel
