On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:46:47 -0500 
 "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> wrote:

 > > I don't wish to argue for any particular option (I don't particularly
 > > care what happens to gnu/dist), but I will point out that you've
 > > neglected to mention
 > > 
 > > 3: make no attempt to support GNU-style builds out of an unmodified
 > >    gnu/dist tree, and thus do nothing.
 > > 	(+) No work involved
 > > 	(-) Makes gwr unhappy
 > 
 > Sure, that's tempting, but then it's harder to verify that
 > changes we make are sufficiently complete for submission
 > back to the maintainers.  It also makes it much harder to
 > build netbsd-targeted for other systems (i.e. Solaris).

I think supporting GNU-style builds is important, for setting up
cross-compilers.

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