On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 05:22:59PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > The intention is to have an independent and self-contained toolchain, to > > avoid any explicit or implicit restrictions/assumptions of the existing > > building routines. > > I don't understand. You will work very, very hard to construct a cross
Oh I hope it will not have to be heroic :) > build framework as robust as build.sh, and why? Because you think there Nor do I mean to imitate build.sh. > might be some "restrictions/assumptions" nobody might have noticed or > be willing to fix? Exactly. More often than not I happen to notice arbitrary restrictions and assumptions which people tend to perceive as natural. > If you tell build.sh to build the tools, that's all it does: build an > independent and self-contained toolchain. Everything you need ends up > in the tooldir. No need to build any other parts of NetBSD. I believe it is more appropriate to begin from scratch than to (try to) use build.sh for what I need. > Why duplicate effort? This is not a duplication but a separate effort with different goals. Regards, Rune