impossible to installkernel without a compiler?

[Warner Losh]

There's already a list of targets to except... It's hard to have an opt-in
list, however :(

Warner

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:26 AM Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> Just want to note that the problem extends to doing such things as "make
> aliases" in /etc/mail on a system installed without a compiler.
>
> I guess it would be nice if COMPILER_TYPE was enforced only when a
> compiler is
> actually needed.  make can be used for more things than building C code.
>
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>