Hello.

This mail is for those who might stumble across the same problems that i 
encountered. A weird error that i found while trying to make build or 
distribution was that the whole process breaks when an alias for ls is 
set (i had this setting my .kshrc for root and my user account).
Solutions:
- alias ll="colorls -aG" (needs some retraining in working with the 
shell but it's the easiest way to solve the problem)
- patching ls to give colored output (will add more code to the base 
system which will probably make a lot of people unhappy)
- change build.sh to work with ls/colorls
- make an extra account for userland compiling (without personalized dot 
files or even a home directory)
As noted above, changing my alias for ls worked great and i can now 
compile a distribution without errors using this set of commands:
time ./build.sh -j8 tools 1> tools.log 2> tools.errlog;
time ./build.sh -j8 -u kernel=KERNCONF 1> kernel.log; 2> kernel.errlog;
time ./build.sh -j8 -u (-U) distribution 1> distribution.log 2> 
distribution.errlog
Installation is also quite problematic. When installing as root but 
compiling as user never forget to add "-U" to your ./build.sh install=/ 
command otherwise the file permissions will not be set correctly. When 
compiling as root installation won't work when -U is set. Anyway never 
forget to add -T and -D (with the accurate directories).
I hope somebody else will find this information useful.

Greetings,

Jochen Keil