- improve comments
- provide a general purpose variable replacement; replace contents of ${FOO}
with ENVIRON["FOO"].
- deprecate @MACHINE@ and @MACHINE_ARCH@ in favour of using ${MACHINE}
and ${MACHINE_ARCH} instead
- add errx() function; like err(), but doesn't print the line number
- invoke this script with various variables defined via PARSELISTENV
*/Makefile*
- use PARSELISTENV instead of POPULATEENV, and add variables like DESTDIR
- other minor tweaks
*/list*
- replace @MACHINE@ with ${MACHINE}
- Remove *.cro files and not the obsoleted *.lo files.
From Bill Studenmund commit message:
> 3) Generate .cro files rather than .lo files. .lo now is used for "local
> objects" - obj's for the host machine not the target machine.
the needed endianism of the architecture. One step towards cross-building
releases.
Not touched are newfs calls in install scripts as they run on the desired
machine and thus default correctly.
boot. Yes, NetBSD/alpha finally gets sysinst on all media types.
The new boot makes a single ramdisk which is then divided via ustarfs
onto a two-floppy set, and a second unified image for CD's, HD's, or
tapes is also created.
in its belly. This differs from the floppy kernel in that it uses the
sysinst installation tool (and thus requires more space; the ramdisk is
3M).
This is useful for netbooting and installing or for placing on a CD-ROM.