building stable/8 on stable/10 host: is it supported?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

Hiroki-san,

On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Hiroki Sato wrote:

> ma> > > looking into troubles with my builder I found more things:
> ma> > >
> ma> > > while on stable/9 host, it seamlessly builds all stable versions from
> ma> > > 10 to 6. stable/4 had to be built in stable/6 jail
> ma> > >
> ma> > > Now, after upgrade builder host system to stable/10, I can no longer
> ma> > > build stable/8 and older (this in on fresh stable/10 jail,
> ma> > > without /usr/obj *and* without -j, which prevents from succeeding
> ma> > > upgrade_checks):
> ma> > >
> ma>
> ma> [snip]
> ma>
> ma> > > make: don't know how to make /usr/lib/libstdc++.a. Stop
> ma> > > *** Error code 2
> ma> > >
> ma> > > Stop in /FreeBSD/src.8.
> ma> > > *** Error code 1
> ma> > >
> ma> > > Stop in /FreeBSD/src.8.
> ma> > > *** Error code 1
> ma> > >
> ma> > > Stop.
> ma> > > make: stopped in /FreeBSD/src.8
> ma> > >
> ma> > are you using gcc?
> ma> >
> ma> > 10 uses normally clang.
> ma>
> ma> Well, I thought buildtools and cross-tools targets should take care of that,
> ma> aren't they?
> 
>  Currently stable/8 does not build on a box running 10 or later
>  because several commits to fix build errors at the toolchain
>  bootstrapping stages due to the toolchain migration were not MFC'd
>  yet.  For stable/8, try the following patch:
> 
>  http://people.allbsd.org/~hrs/FreeBSD/stable-8-patch.diff

Thanks a lot, will try and report!


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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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