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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:28:20 -0700
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Subject:   Re: rescue/ broke cross compiles
Message-ID:  <20030630222820.GV70590@roark.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030630222353.GH57432@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030630222353.GH57432@sunbay.com>

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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:23:53AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi there!
>=20
> As seen by the latest series of tinderbox failures,
> the rescue/ stuff breaks cross compiles.  The problem
> is that some bits like bin/sh have the so-called
> "build tools".  These are small utilities not normally
> visible in the world except during the build stage.
> As such, "make buildworld" builds them in the native
> host's environment (using the host compiler, headers,
> libraries, and binutils).  The /rescue should have
> such a target too (build-tools), that would in effect
> call the build-tools targets in all makefiles that
> have it, e.g. bin/sh/Makefile.

I'm the first to admit my Make-foo is lacking. I'm not sure
I understand why /rescue needs build-tools bits. Can you help
enlighten me?

-gordon

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