Re: netbsd-11 vs. SUNW,qfe; hmeX: device timeout?

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 13:57:58 -0500, John D. Baker wrote:

> > gcc switched to -fno-common by default at some point in about that
> > time frame.  You should be able to dodge this by adding -fcommon to
> > HOST_CFLASG and HOST_CXXFLAGS to build older tools programs (that
> > (usually unintentionally) rely on common) on newer host systems (that
> > default to -fno-common).
> 
> I was hoping that adding those to my local "mk.conf" would work, but it
> didn't.  I ultimately had to add them as environment variables before the
> invocation of 'build.sh'.

It's a chicken and egg problem :).  You fist need to build make
without make, so that first time does not read mk.conf b/c it is not
done by a make.  See tools/make/buildmake.sh.in

-uwe