Subject: Re: kern/5377: sys/system.h inludes lib/libkern/libkern.h for LKM too
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/30/1998 12:59:43
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote:

: In an ideal world the source tree would build self-contained, and it
: would be possible to build several different releases of an OS on a
: single machine without having to use chroot.  This would make SCM of the
: whole OS so much simpler.  Hopefully the need for cross-compilation will
: lead us in this general direction (since this will solve both problems).

Though the whole tree is not yet cross-compilable (and I'm setting up two
cross environments for the explicit purpose of putting a finessed system in
place for that), the tree can be compiled on the same architecture for
several different releases:  $DESTDIR does that for you.  As of 1.3, the
`gcc' frontend program was fixed to make this work properly (there was a
bug wrt the -nostdlib option).

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)