Re: HEADSUP: drm-current-kmod now installs sources
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 8/14/19 9:22 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > This all sounds vaguely wrong, backwards, to me. A developer who is > using a given module on their build system might want that module to be > rebuilt automatically, but only if the build parameters match those of > the running build host system. > > If my build host is running freebsd 12 amd64 and I'm doing a build for > freebsd 13 armv7, I have no interest in automatic rebuilds of an amd64 > driver module for a different OS arch and version just because that > module happens to be installed on the system I use to do crossbuilds. > > My objections are theoretical... this automation just seems improperly > designed to me. But it won't actually affect me in any way, because I > don't build video driver modules from ports, and I don't run freebsd > current on my build host machine. Probably the number of people doing > crossbuilding is small enough that nobody else is going to object to > this "the whole world is amd64" automation. You assume DRM is amd64-only when it is definitely not. It also has suitable guards in its Makefile to only build the relevant kernel modules on supported architectures. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"