On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:38:37AM +0200, Ilpo Ruotsalainen wrote:

> Why is sgivol compiled as host tool?

So that bootable media can be generated during cross-compiles.  Precedents are
tools/sunlabel, tools/prep-mkbootimage, and so forth.  See
etc/etc.sgimips/Makefile.inc.

> It isn't very portable piece of code

Seeing as how it's essentially a wrapper for fseek()/fwrite() calls that
makes heavy use of be*toh(), it should be sufficiently portable.

> breaks cross-compiles from non-NetBSD hosts.

Breaks how?  (Admittedly, it's only been tested as a host tool from NetBSD
hosts)

-- Chris
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