In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0306061938090.8795-100000@tautology.immanent.net> you write:
>On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Matthias Drochner wrote:
>> fredb@immanent.net said:
>> OK, but this is somehow unsatisfying because information
>> is duplicated: The *.mk files have to know which crt* files
>> are to be linked in, in addition to the compiler's specs.
>
>Yes, they do. I asked once, why the toolchain compiler isn't a fully
>functional cross compiler, and I'm not sure I ever got a satisfactory
>answer.

One good reason is that the current arrangement gives us DESTDIR-independent
toolchain binaries.  Thus, I don't have to recompile my tools every time I
switch which DESTDIR I'm building to (e.g. to build a different MACHINE
within a MACHINE_ARCH, which I do quite a lot).

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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