On Thu Oct  5 01:48:21 2000, Markus Kurek wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded my i386 boxes to the latest 1.5_alpha2 branch
> (sources
> checked out on October the 3rd). Now cvsup (netbsd a.out) fails with 

Where I use 1.5G. The last time I used it was on September the 10th, where I
don't know now which kernel I used at that time, maybe is was 1.5F.

> #cvsup -g -L2 /etc/supfiles/netbsd-supfile
> Parsing supfile "/etc/supfiles/netbsd-supfile"
> 
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***    Value out of range
> ***    file
> "/home/jdp/pm3works/pm3-1.1.13_NetBSD/libs/libm3/src/uid/POSIX/MachineIDPosix.m3",
> line 73
> ***

I get the same core dump with the freebsd binary:

***
*** runtime error:
***    Value out of range
***    file "/b/jdp/pm3/pm3/libs/libm3/src/uid/POSIX/MachineIDPosix.m3", line 73
***

> cvsup is the only  a.out binary I have on this machine...does anyone
> have problems with the a.out compatibility  running a recent 1.5_alpha2
> build ?

I don't think that this is a problem with the a.out compatibility.

Can you put your informations in a PR?

Bernd