In message <20031120044959.GG26065@mewburn.net>, Luke Mewburn writes:
>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:45:02PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>  | If TOOLDIR is set, the building of the tools tries to use one or two
>  | binaries from the tools. Since they don't exist yet for you, that's why
>  | you get that error.
>
>This is simply not correct; I regularly perform builds with something
>like this:
>	rm -rf /var/obj/woot
>	mkdir /var/obj/woot
>	setenv MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX /var/obj/woot
>	setenv TOOLDIR /var/obj/woot/tools
>	./build.sh -m vax tools
>	    # 7 minutes later, $TOOLDIR is baked
>
>In this case, $TOOLDIR set in the environment to a non-existant
>directory, and build.sh correctly populated $TOOLDIR.

Here's the script I use:

rm -rf /usr/netbsd /usr/tools /usr/obj/* /sys/arch/i386/compile/CHALLENGER/*

PATH=/usr/tools/bin:$PATH ./build.sh -D /usr/netbsd \
        -O /usr/obj \
        -T /usr/tools \
        distribution kernel=CHALLENGER $*


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb