Re: Proposal: remove usr.bin/mkstr

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>]

Den 2022-04-10 kl. 22:03, skrev Joerg Sonnenberger:
> Am Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 09:30:19PM +0700 schrieb Robert Elz:
> >      Date:        Sat, 9 Apr 2022 21:33:36 +0200
> >      From:        Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
> >      Message-ID:  <YlHfkAfbLDjr7n3a%bec.de@localhost>
> >
> >    | wtf is this still being installed on most NetBSD systems?
> >
> > Can you demonstrate that NetBSD is not being used somewhere
> > to cross-build BSD 2 (2.10 or 2.11 or something) systems?
> Can you demonstrate that BSD 2 is cross-buildable from any recent NetBSD
> release? It would strongly surprise me given that parts of K&R C are not
> supported by the compilers in base and at least 64bit platforms are
> going to violently object to a lot of other abuse in the code. A lack of
> mkstr is the least of your problems.
Cross-compilation of 2BSD requires native F/D-float, so it can only be 
done on a vax.
(compiling the 2.11BSD kernel worked when I tried a few years ago).

...but I cannot find any reason anyone would like to do that since 
compling 2BSD on simh is much faster.

Someone should probably ANSIfy the manpage if we are going to keep mkstr.

-- R