I did exactly this when I converted from a.out -> elf

It can be painful to manage though as I found the set of tools required
to build grows quite large.

James

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>> >  > It seems the old menuc and msgc files are picked up when doing a DESTDIR
>> >  > build. Any objections to compile the patch below?
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>> > Yes.  You can't run DESTDIR's menuc(1), because you might be
>> > cross-compiling.
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>> A correct patch would build a special menuc, etc., for a DESTDIR build
>> out of the current source tree with *HOST* tools.  This would require
>> menuc to be built twice: one with host tools, one with target tools..
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>Why single out menuc? What we should have, is a toolchain target that
>builds all the host tools and requisite libraries. If you don't want
>to sully your main tree, you could set DESTDIR to a tools area and
>then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH for the real (cross) DESTDIR build.
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>Frederick
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