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            John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
: 
: On 26-Apr-2003 Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
: > The best way to cross-build is by starting a cross-world, which you
: > then abort after the headers are installed in the object tree. This
: > should leave a usable set of cross-tools you can use for buildkernel.
: 
: It would be nice if there was a 'buildtools' target that did just
: enough to allow one to do a buildkernel.  Maybe 'buildkerneltools'
: and 'buildworldtools' targets where the latter let you cross-build
: individual libraries or binaries

make -f Makefile _obj _build-tools

is what I've been using.  You don't need bootstrap-tools typically...
However, you want the _ version since it uses the right environment.
It does build a little more than is necessary, but not a lot more.

Warner