Here's what is currently on my toolchain agenda.  If you have items to add,
please let me know so that I may update this list.

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=== CURRENTLY IN WORK ===
=========================

The following items have been implemented and are being cleaned up for
committal; they should appear in-tree within 24 hours.

 - Fix some places where nonstandard tools are used by GNU build systems
   (perl in texinfo) based on bogus file timestamping.  Some of this was
   dealt with by overriding autoconf/automake, but more is still needed.

 - Top level make(1) bootstrap for vendor makes or old NetBSD make(1)

 - Make MKTOOLS tri-state:  allow a way to build the "traditional way" as
   opposed to breaking the build if native toolchain bits need updating
   (pr 14162)

 - Document new toolchain system (tools/README)

 - Fix pathnames that are invalid on Winblows (Cygwin) hosts ("aux",
   "com1.c", etc.)

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The following items have been implemented but need some fixes before
they will be commitable; they should appear in-tree within 48 hours.

 - Add cross-groff, cross-menuc/msgc, cross-crunchide/mdsetimage (bfd
   based), and tools/crunchgen

 - Split binary sets for old and new toolchain default architectures

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=== BROKEN TOOLCHAIN ISSUES ===
===============================

 - Fix undefined symbols in libg2c (pr 14222)

 - Investigate why parse.h is sometimes not built for compile_et in both
   tools and usr.bin (prs 14187 and 14239)

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=== NEW FUNCTIONALITY ISSUES ===
================================

 - Investigate various MIPS reloc lossage on new toolchain (tech-toolchain,
   rafal@mediaone.net)

 - Integrate mipseb properly into config.guess and configure.in segments

 - Fix gcc/bfd/ld on alpha to use our current (historic) PLT format and
   nop/unop sequence properly

 - Create a default based on host machine for TOOLDIR

 - Find workaround for double math issues on sparc64 (pr 14095)

===

The following tasks are important but are blocked because I'm focusing on
the issues above -- help would be appreciated:

 - Create cross capable mklocale (jchacon has done some work thus far on this)

 - Fix ld.elf_so to work with newer MP-safe PLT format on alpha
   (and change gcc/bfd/ld to use it on systems that are capable)

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=== FURTHER DEVELOPMENT TASKS ===
=================================

These tasks are postponed until all tasks above are completed.

 - Port forward changes to gcc 3.0.x and gcc-current
   (may create cvs.netbsd.org CVS tree for collaborative merge work)

 - Submit patches for all active gcc branches to FSF

 - Investigate why the "new" nop/unop sequence on alpha gives us pipeline
   caching issues (this has been an issue since binutils 2.9.x)

 - General clean up of build system, particularly toolchain2netbsd

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