Re: Host requirements to build the Tools binaries

> Building with latest Debian "unstable" containers doesn't work for me
> right now, as strptime() (used in bin/date/date.c) isn't made visible
> [...]

This is amusing in an ironic sort of way, because I just no more than a
day or two ago tried to cross-build 5.2/sparc using 1.4T/sparc as the
host system.  It failed when building tools.  The first failure was
because 5.2's awk depends on isblank(), which is there in 1.4T but has
a preprocessor guard that hides it from the 5.2 build.  I copied the
5.2 guard to the 1.4T ctype.h and then it fell over trying to include,
IIRC, <wctype.h>.

I ended up addressing the end desire differently.  But it is an example
of the kind of issues extreme cases of cross-building can run into.  I
probably would have had even more trouble trying to cross-build from,
say, one of the mtXinu 4.3+NFS VAXen I used to use back in the day.

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