Re: Fwd: DragonFly ISO release build failure

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:28:16PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
:> It's place as a bootstrap tool is wrong by the way.
:> 
:> Check a make buildworld log.
:
:I think in this instance both you and Matt are wrong. mklocale is a
:bootstrap tool because it is run on the host to actually generate
:the locals. Patching parts away like Matt did doesn't work in this
:special case, because the tool behaves differently.
:
:Joerg

    Well, another choice is to .PATH / SRCS include libc's locale sources
    like we do to get getopt_long.c for gzip.  That could be be pretty
    nasty because the locale sources are all over the map.

    Beyond that the only alternative I see is to greatly expand the 
    build-tools stage to also build libc 'natively', and possibly other
    libraries, and then move mklocale from the bootstrap tools to the
    cross-tools stage where it could then take advantage of the libraries
    built by the build-tools stage.

    The word 'nasty' comes to mind.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>