>I am trying to build userland for the first time,this one works , then
>another problem crops up , setprogname() which needs libc to be built
>which needs lint to be built and so on.

try building libc and installing it with NOLINT=yes.  then you ought
to be able to build a new lint, and start the build again at the top.

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