In the midst of trying to get Haiku to crossbuild from OS X, I
noticed that NewOS has a facility that can automatically build
toolchains -- including fetching and patching the source, like BSD
ports. This would be a really handy feature to have, and it got me
thinking that a ports like thing for a lot of software we have (vi,
libbind, etc.) could be very handy and reduce the size of our source
tree. The way NetBSD handles this is ideal -- if you are building
for a system that isn't yours, and don't have a toolchain set up, the
build system makes you one, then uses it. It would be nice to have
this kind of functionality.
Anyway, back to playing with jam and trying to make it like cross-
compilers...
-Nathan
