RE: Is there _any_ way to get help on rebuilding binaries?!

[Mihnea Mironescu <MihneaM_(_at_)_papastratos_(_dot_)_ro>]

One reason would be getting the sources for the gcc compiler v.2.95.3
prerelese. I didn't get them when using the OPENBSD_2_7 tag with CVSup...

Mihnea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de [mailto:naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de]
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 11:22 PM
> To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
> Subject: Re: Is there _any_ way to get help on rebuilding binaries?!
> 
> 
> AnnMarie Clattenburg <aclattenburg_(_at_)_hinespool_(_dot_)_com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not going to be much help since I'm only on my second 
> week of OpenBSD
> > after years with NT.  I also could not get the make build 
> to work with
> > -current.
> 
> Why are you trying to go -current if you're only in your second
> week of running OpenBSD (and presumably don't have much other unix
> experience either)?  This is insane.  -current is for developers.
> 
> > So I reinstalled and tried the cvs patch branch instead and it
> > worked great.  Maybe the instructions were just better, 
> don't know, but I
> > suspect the patch branch is a better choice for newbies...
> 
> It's for users who don't work on improving OpenBSD itself.  That
> includes new users almost by definition.
> 
> -- 
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          
> naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de
>