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Re: installing rump libs

Subject: Re: installing rump libs
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:52:40 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.netbsd.tech.kern

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:46:28PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
>
> * use of the kernel file system code in various utilities such as
>   fsck and makefs instead of having to rewrite the same code for
>   userspace

This is a worthy goal, but installing all of puffs and rump is going to
break the camel's back on a lot of small embedded systems; and if it's
intended that MKPUFFS go away, that increases build time, too.  Will it
still be possible to have working newfs and fsck without building puffs
and rump?

Thor

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