> 
> How difficult is it to build the programs for generating VAX binaries? 
> Is doing it on NetBSD much less convoluted than what I had to do for Linux?
>
It's not so difficult to do. Gcc needs to be taught to not to store
floats not in the hosts native format, as needed some similar tweaking
and ld had to learn about page sizes. Under NetBSD the rest of the tools
(nm, ar, ...) can be used directly (as long as they are for a.out anyway).
I think that under Linux you need to build a more complete toolchain.

-- Ragge