Re: install strfile and unstr (and what is HOSTPROG?)

Alan Barrett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> src/games/fortune/strfile/Makefile has HOSTPROG=strfile (instead of 
> PROG=strfile). I think that is what keeps it from installing.
> 
> Where is HOSTPROG documented? If this changed to PROG will it break 
> cross-compiles?

HOSTPROG is for things that are built and executed in the host
environment during a cross build.  It may not be documented properly,
but is used by many things under src/tools.

I think that strfile shuold be installed both as a host tool and as a
normal program.

--apb (Alan Barrett)
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