Re: make buildworld failed at bootstrap stage

[joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:42:50PM +0000, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:30:10PM +0400, Alexey Slynko wrote:
> >>===> usr.bin/vi (bootstrap-tools)
> >Because the bootstrap phase has to use the bootstrap phase :-)
> 
> Maybe this sounds stupid, but why is vi a bootstrap tool? Especially
> considering that vi is already installed on all systems DragonFlyBSD is
> able to build on?

I'd guess ex(1) is the reason. We want to have a consistent build
system, so the number of tools we use from the build host is tried to
kept minimal.

Joerg