Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> writes:
> it seems like a very good idea to me.  before this change, if I would
> check out a fresh source tree, cd to .../bin/ls, and type "make",
> it would always give an error.

And that's probably the right behavior. If you want it to work with
the in-system tools, just say make USETOOLS=no and all is well. What's
wrong with that?

> after this change, the same commands
> will build "ls".  this seems like a vast improvement to me.

But it isn't, because it means people will do full builds with
USETOOLS set to no.

> what policy would you prefer?   why do you assume that without setting
> TOOLDIR that the new toolchain won't be used?

The question is one of the mechanism -- we want people exercising the
full "cross build even on the same architecture" way of doing
things. In addition, the change wasn't discussed on tech-toolchain,
and there was a good reason to have it the other way.

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