>From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
>
>For now, NetBSD doesn't include binutils source. If you want to
>compile _everything_ from source, you'll need to get binutils 2.8 (or
>2.8.1, if it's out) and configure, build, and install binutils
>yourself. (I've tried, and it seems to pass a `make stage3'-style
>test, as does gcc 2.7.2.2).
>
>If someone has the time and patience to try this at home, that would
>be cool.

I built and installed binutils-2.8 without any trouble (sh configure
&& gmake && gmake install)

While doing a "make build" to build the world, I encountered one
problem so far... "make includes" died in /usr/src/sys/arch/pmax/stand
because there is no "includes" target.  I worked around this by adding
a dummy "includes:" target and restarted the build.

Cheers,
entropy

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