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Update documentation/content/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/_index.adoc
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Co-authored-by: Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
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jrac and grahamperrin authored Dec 22, 2024
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Historically, building required a FreeBSD host.
Nowadays, FreeBSD can be built on Linux and macOS.

To build FreeBSD on non-FreeBSD hosts, the recommendation is to use the `tools/build/make.py` script.
To build on a non-FreeBSD host, the `tools/build/make.py` script is recommended.
This script acts as a wrapper around `bmake`, which is the make implementation used by FreeBSD.
It ensures that the necessary tooling, including the actual FreeBSD's man:make[1], is bootstrapped and that the build environment is properly configured.
In particular, it sets the external toolchain variables, such as `XCC`, `XLD`, and others.
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