Making BSD stuff under MacMiNT

First of all, I found that I needed to make BSD stuff such as "make"(bsd make), "cc"(actually gcc), "cpp", "cc1", "as", "ld", or so.
Almost all sources I used are from NetBSD1.0, but the source of "config" is from NetBSD-current.

1. I started making "make" first. (Just for a try.) [Sep 95]
   There was a Makefile for "gnu make" named Makefile.boot. That made me easy for I was not accustomed to the Makefile in that time. Because the include files of MacMiNT is differnt from those of BSD, I made the directory named "bsdinc" in the source directory and added "-Ibsdinc" to "CFLAGS" in Makefile(renamed from Makefile.boot). And put the BSD's own include files into that directory. The "make" was compiled successfully. [Oct 95]
2. Then I copied "sys.mk" and the other files from /usr/share/mk (in unix file system). Somehow, the file "bsd.dep.mk" was not read.("Could not find" error.) So, I copied "bsd.dep.mk" to "bse.dep.mk", and change the name in the "bsd.*.mk". [Oct 95]
3. Next, I tried to compile GNU stuff. ("cc", "cpp", "cc1", "as", "ld") [Nov 95]
   The problem with compiling these is that there are too much "alloca" in sources. This will fail when I execute the program. I must chage "alloca" to "malloc". (actually "xmalloc" which fail if the memory is not enough.) It was a lot of task, in fact I did not change all "alloca", some which do not require much memory were not changed. After that, I could compile these stuff. [Jan 96]
4. To build kernel, I need "config","mkdep","ranlib","tsort", "lorder",too. The "config" tries to link a directory, so I commented out that because MacMiNT does not support directory-liking(maybe), and copied the directory instead of linking. Other stuff were not so difficult to make. I compiled all of those stuff. [Feb 96]
5. I also made "config.new"(old name),"ar","nm",and "yacc" which I do not need to compile the kernel.

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