James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net> writes:

> This is not unusual. There are whole sections of the tree that require boot
> strapping of current libs/includes before they'll build on older systems.
> 
> I suggest reading through the build docs and UPDATING.

Right, and BUILDING claims a posix system is need to build tools. An
example of exeption to this is nb_progname.c. I guess CYGWIN don't have
RMD-160, true ?

So my real question is what new features will not be put in the toolchain
because the host-system sucks.

Love

PS

Index: BUILDING.mdoc
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RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/BUILDING.mdoc,v
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 .Bl -tag -width "BUILDING.mdoc"
 .It Sy BUILDING.mdoc
 This document (in -mdoc troff format; the original copy).
-.It Sy BUILDING.html
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-.It Sy BUILDING.txt
+.It Sy BUILDING
 This document (in plaintext).
 .It Sy Makefile
 The main Makefile for