On Wed Dec 10 2003 at 09:07:23 +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> 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)

Linux doesn't have sys/disklabel.h nor the ioctl() used.

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