Re: a separate build of libc

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, u-6hol%aetey.se@localhost wrote:
> > One of the assumptions in the NetBSD build system is that you 
> > have the entire source tree
>
> This is a quite large assumption :)

Of course.  It's "NetBSD", not "the libc from NetBSD".

> > Another important assumption is that the build is run on a host with a
> ...
> > with a compiler and host include files and host libraries that 
> > allows "build.sh tools" to work.
>
> This does not really look like a "well-defined" condition :)

It's true that there's no easy way to tell whether it will work 
without actually trying it.  Again, if it fails on a system where 
it's reasonable to expect it to work (say a unix-like system that 
is able to build lots of other software), then any problems can be 
fixed, as has happened many times in the past.

--apb (Alan Barrett)