On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:31:57AM -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Daniel Carosone said:
> 
> >You should use build.sh.  That will build a current set of tools
> >for you first, and use that to build the rest.
> 
> I've actually avoided using build.sh, it seems to be mostly for 
> cross-compiling.

Yes, especially when you consider compiling netbsd-current on
netbsd-old as a case of cross-compiling (which is basically what
it does).

> The few times I've used it, it didn't do what I 
> expected. I have it set up for make build to always rebuild the
> tools. The problem is that it may not be able to build gcc3, because
> groff needs to be rebuilt, which needs gcc3.

By all means spend your own effort manually recreating a set of
host tools to build a new userland, or just use build.sh :)
> 
> >As for your kernel, you may need COMPAT_16.
> 
> I did this and it worked.

Cool.

--
Dan.