Ahh, of course.  Thanks makes sense, thanks!
	Rick

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, James Chacon wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:45:50 -0400 (EDT)
> From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
> To: Rick Byers <rb-netbsd@BigScaryChildren.net>
> Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: new tool system question
>
> Yes. It completely avoids the problems of "need new lint to compile but new
> lint requires new libc, ...", etc.
>
> All the required toolchain bits and build tools are built first with
> portable source (for the most part) and those are used to bootstrap the rest
> of the system.
>
> James
>
> >
> >Hi,
> >Is there any advantage to using USETOOLS=yes when host == target?  I can
> >see why the new tool system is necessary when cross compiling (infact, I
> >think its awesome!), but I'm not sure if there is any reason for me to use
> >it on my home system...  I've read the mailing list archives, but I
> >couldn't find any message that really outlined the motivation.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >	Rick
> >
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