On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 04:20:53PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, u-6...@aetey.se wrote: > >>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. > > One of the assumptions in the NetBSD build system is that you have the > entire source tree
This is a quite large assumption :) > Another important assumption is that the build is run on a host with a ... > with a compiler and host include > files and host libraries that allows "build.sh tools" to work. This does not really look like a "well-defined" condition :) > If you have > a host that is mostly unix-like, but where build.sh tools fails, then I > think NetBSD will be interested in fixing that. Thanks Alan. I do not plan using this tool for a number of reasons, so will hardly produce any reports. I don't doubt that the tool is valuable - but it is meant for cases other than mine. Regards, Rune