[Info-vax] cross tools and CLD scope

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 10/18/2021 12:51 PM, David Jones wrote:
> On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 12:10:04 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> That's all impressive and scary. Luckily editing .FIRST or the code
>> that generates it to include the cross tools set-up got me as far as I
>> can get with that mechanism. Then I was on to cases where code is
>> generated that needs to be compiled and run natively to probe for
>> features that will then be used to generate additional code that will
>> need to be built with the cross tools. It's not going to be pretty.
> 
> My solution certainly isn't pretty:

[...] stuff removed
  
That seems more complicated than it needs to be

You can remove the cross-build changes this way . . .

@sys$startup:X86_XTOOLS$SYLOGIN.COM "" "" "TRUE"


I also build a few layered products whose bootstrap tools need to run
on the build system, so I'm constantly flipping between native and
cross builds in the context of a build.

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                       -- Rob