In article <3FA43BDA.8040902@sdf-eu.org> you wrote:
> I'm learning how to compile my own netbsd kernel
> the first step is to build the toolchain , but what exactly is the 
> toolchain for what does it do ?

"Toolchain" is the name for compiler, linker, assembler and a lot of other 
tools:

i386--netbsdelf-addr2line i386--netbsdelf-ar i386--netbsdelf-as 
i386--netbsdelf-c++ i386--netbsdelf-c++filt i386--netbsdelf-cpp 
i386--netbsdelf-dbsym i386--netbsdelf-g++ i386--netbsdelf-g77 
i386--netbsdelf-gasp i386--netbsdelf-gcc i386--netbsdelf-gcov 
i386--netbsdelf-ld i386--netbsdelf-lint i386--netbsdelf-mdsetimage 
i386--netbsdelf-nm i386--netbsdelf-objcopy i386--netbsdelf-objdump 
i386--netbsdelf-ranlib i386--netbsdelf-readelf i386--netbsdelf-size 
i386--netbsdelf-strings i386--netbsdelf-strip nbasn1_compile nbcap_mkdb 
nbcat nbcksum nbcompile_et nbconfig nbcrunchgen nbctags nbeqn nbgencat 
nbgroff nbhost-mkdep nbindxbib nbinfo nbinstall nbinstall-info 
nbinstallboot nblex nblorder nbm4 nbmake nbmake-i386 nbmakefs nbmakeinfo 
nbmakewhatis nbmenuc nbmkdep nbmklocale nbmktemp nbmsgc nbmtree nbpax 
nbpic nbpwd_mkdb nbrefer nbrpcgen nbsoelim nbsunlabel nbtbl nbtexi2dvi 
nbtexindex nbtsort nbuudecode nbyacc nbzic


 - Hubert

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