Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x

[Colin Percival]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> ports/sysutils/makefs (borrowed 
>> shamelessly
>> from NetBSD).
 >
> yep that's it.. we REALLY should use this in the release.

Last time this discussion arose, the conclusion was that we didn't want
to use ports in the release-building process if it could be avoided; and
I didn't (and still don't) have time to clean it up appropriately for
inclusion in the base system.  (My "port" includes NetBSD's make and a
number of libraries because I figured it was easier to include those
than it would be to rewrite the Makefiles.)

> does it work for machines other than i386 (e.g. machines with big-endian 
> UFS)?

I don't have any personal experience here... but since this code came from
NetBSD, I certainly hope so!

Colin Percival