So, i realized something sort-of cool yesterday...  One good way to
help debug NetBSD/Alpha is to port software which includes regression
tests and run the regression tests...

This not only has the potential to build an archive of ported software
(if somebody's actually collecting the results), but also can exercise
basic system functionality in a reasonable way...

Anyway, pdksh compiles out of the box under NetBSD/Alpha, and perl
5.002 compiles out of the box (with a few different Configure answers
than the defaults; we don't have shared libs or dynamic loading)...
The perl regression tests found a serious libc bug in the
ndbm-emulation functions...  They're fixed in -current, but probably
wouldn't have been noticed for a long time, otherwise...


chris