Subject: Re: Trailing / in pathnames passed to build.sh
To: None <tech-toolchain@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 08/17/2004 10:05:00
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >* You probably can't rely on a working sed being available so early
> >  in the build process.
>
> you mean to suggest that sed implementations actually exist that can't
> do that?

No, I meant to suggest that there might exist platforms on which NetBSD
can be cross-built, but that don't have sed in the PATH.  I have
subsequently discovered that the build relies on a working host sed
anyway, and makes no attempt to build nbsed.

--apb (Alan Barrett)