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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: New ACPI diffs ready for testing
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On 26-Apr-2003 Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> The best way to cross-build is by starting a cross-world, which you
> then abort after the headers are installed in the object tree. This
> should leave a usable set of cross-tools you can use for buildkernel.

It would be nice if there was a 'buildtools' target that did just
enough to allow one to do a buildkernel.  Maybe 'buildkerneltools'
and 'buildworldtools' targets where the latter let you cross-build
individual libraries or binaries

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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