cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 ObsoleteFiles.inc src/share/man/man7 build.7

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20050731185925.GU68965 at obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
            Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> writes:
: Hi Alexander,
: 
: > > BTW, I don't really see why {check,delete}-old-* should be restricted
: > > to native environments.  DESTDIR might point to e.g. an NFS-exported
: > > filesystem from which thin clients of a different architecture boot.
: > 
: > Because of ObsoleteFiles.inc:
: > ---snip---
: > .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} != "alpha" && ${MACHINE_ARCH} != "sparc64"
: > # 20040130: libkse renamed to libpthread
: > OLD_FILES+=usr/lib/libkse.a
: > OLD_FILES+=usr/lib/libkse.so
: > .endif
: > ---snip---
: > 
: > We could change this to TARGET_ARCH instead, but then the user has to
: > set it, else he removes non-obsolete files.

Not true.  TARGET_ARCH is automatically set.  You have to set
TARGET_ARCH/TARGET already if you are cross compiling, and
automatically set if not.

: This sounds as a hack, but couldn't you use file(1) on ${DESTDIR}/bin/ls
: to identify the architecture it's running ?  It would at least avoid
: breaking POLA.

Why is this a hack?

Warner