>From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
>
>        I managed to finally finish a "make build"
>and get a working (!?) system.  So far things look
>fairly good.  I'll be sending out a note soon
>with a few problems I ran into detailed so future
>builders can have a smoother go.
> 
>        Anyway, after I got it built I tried to
>install tcsh and top.  As they both failed I stoped
>with additional software. :-)  top complains that
>it can't find all these kernel goodies, and then
>locked my tty hard (top 3.3).  Is there a NetBSD
>friendly version of top around?  tcsh was slightly
>more interesting, it complied cleanly (with the 
>bsd4.4 config), but when I ran it I get:
>free(1009a400) bad block. (memtop = 100a0000 membot = 1008d540)
> 
>        So, the real question is did I just pick
>two bad software packages, or is my build completely
>broken? :-)  Can someone endorse a method to test
>functionality?

Top is tricky...a lot of the functionality it needs has changed
recently in -current.  I think some users were talking about this
recently on the netbsd-current list, you might check the archives to
see if anyone came up with a working port.

For tcsh and bash on NetBSD-pmax, the trick seems to be to configure
them to use the system's malloc() library instead of the ones provided
with those packages.  I can confirm that this works with bash from
personal experience.  Others have reported here that the same fix
works for tcsh.

Cheers,
entropy

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