Subject: Bootstrapping...
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/03/1997 23:34:13
Has anyone else been frustrated by the amonut of hand tuning required to
get NetBSD bootstrapped for the first time on a new system?  You can't build
much of anything without groff, because make will fail (and then propagate
the failure back up) the moment it gets to something with documentation.

But you can't build and install groff; to do that, you need to build some
of the subdirectories first, then (after they fail due to lack of nroff)
install them, then go to /usr/src/share/tmac and make install, then you can
go back to the groff directory and run a plain make/make install and expect
it to work, probably.

Should we perhaps have a "make bootstrap" that attempts to build a complete
tree assuming just baseX.gz and compX.gz, where X is "1.2" or "-current"?

-s