Re: 11.0 -r301139: WITH_META_MODE=yes vs. "sh: ./make_keys: Exec format error"? [still true of -r301815]

Bryan Drewery <bdrewery_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > eg. in our internal tree - which cross builds fine:
> > 
> > make_keys: make_keys.c names.c ncurses_def.h ${HEADERS}
> >         ${HOST_CC} -o $_at_ ${HOST_CFLAGS} ${NCURSES_DIR}/ncurses/tinfo/make_keys.c
> 
> I like this method but am going to put it off for a while.  The

The above is a reasonably non-intrusive way of dealing with targets like
that.

For tools which are more expensive to build, having a separate dir is
best, since (with DIRDEPS at least) it is then easier to build them
only once and at the right time.