mknetrel for president

[Nicholas Wourms]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:05:54AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>
>> * set of functions for each stage (configure, make, install) etc,
>>   and between stages.
>> * each package can override any of these functions with its own.
>> * configure, build, package src and binary package.
>> * rather simple, specific and lightweight.
>>
>>Looking at mknetrel, there are two things that I really miss from my
>>self-centered pov:
>>
>> * setting up the cross building environment.
>>
>
>There should be little, if any cross build environment to set up.  You
>either have the cross compilers or you don't.
>
I hate to chime in, but I love Jan's scripts for building a 
cross-compiler.  Let's be frank, building a cross environment is easy, 
but it is a tedious task somewhat prone to mistakes.  Jan's scripts make 
this task easy and autonomous to execute.  Just my opinion, but I think 
bootstrapping the cross-environment would be an excellent add-on for 
your script.  In most people's case, they do not have the 
cross-compilers.  This would give them the option, should they desire, 
to bootstrap and build the cross environment from scratch.  I don't know 
about most of you, but I'm lazier than sin, so I suppose that's my 
reasoning for liking this.

Cheers,
Nicholas