Re: a separate build of libc

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 04:20:53PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, u-6hol%aetey.se@localhost wrote:
> >>might be some "restrictions/assumptions" nobody might have noticed or be
> >>willing to fix?
> >
> >Exactly. More often than not I happen to notice arbitrary restrictions and
> >assumptions which people tend to perceive as natural.
> 
> One of the assumptions in the NetBSD build system is that you have the
> entire source tree

This is a quite large assumption :)

> Another important assumption is that the build is run on a host with a
 ...
> with a compiler and host include
> files and host libraries that allows "build.sh tools" to work.

This does not really look like a "well-defined" condition :)

> If you have
> a host that is mostly unix-like, but where build.sh tools fails, then I
> think NetBSD will be interested in fixing that.

Thanks Alan. I do not plan using this tool for a number of reasons, so
will hardly produce any reports. I don't doubt that the tool is valuable -
but it is meant for cases other than mine.

Regards,
Rune