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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
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Subject: Re: make world breaks in /usr/src/usr.bin/xlint 
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:02:09 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> No. build-tools are those tiny little utilities that are part of the
> sources and are only used to build the sources.

Okay, so how do we boot-strap lint?  Ultimately, the build of the lint
libraries requires a working lint, which most people don't have at this
stage.  However, the lint binary itself doesn't require boot-strapping.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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