On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:23:06PM +0100, ali (Anders Lindgren) wrote:
> Tried to build ncurses from pkgsrc on 1.6.2_RC4/sparc64,
> with pkgsrc gcc 3.3.2. It crashes pretty bad, and "sync"
> from "db" crashes again so something really fucked the kernel up.
> 
> This is on:
> 	NetBSD 1.6.2 (IDA) #0: Thu Feb 12 22:15:42 CET 2004
> and:
> 	cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC @ 143 MHz, version 0 FPU
> 
> I hope this can be of some help to someone. Kernel config attached.
> 

How reproducable is that? I'd try -current.
There are several important improvements in it, integrated gcc33,
threads, and lot of kernel fixes. Unless your problem is ultra1-related
I wouldn't expect -current to be worth.

Regards,
	Andrey