On 10/17/07, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:27:12AM +0000, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > Programs with BSD makefiles yes, autoconffed programs no.  I've just
> > spent a couple of weeks buried in this.  The problem with autoconffed
> > programs is usually that they depend on a rats' nest of other autoconffed
> > programs and eventually you hit either something that uses AC_TRY_RUN
> > or a library that requires libtool.  I have not yet succeed in battering
> > libtool into working correctly with any kind of cross toolchain, though
> > generally in these cases I have built NetBSD src/dist style reachacross
> > Makefiles and generated the required config.h for each of my targets
> > by hand, so I have not tried very hard to make libtool work right.
>
> Hands up who followed the Sommer of Code this year.
>


I did.  :)

And speaking of syspkg's, base system stuff, etc, I think I'll bring
up a thread I started on tech-pkg:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2007/08/30/0003.html