Well building -current is unnecessarily complicated, but it is possible.

First, you have to build -current with -current.

Yes, this is a contradiction, and unfortunately its the way it is. Get as 
late a snapshot as you can find, then build the egcs tools against your 
current system, then you can try to build the system. While you are in the 
egcs tools modify src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld/rrs.c to not print those text 
relocation errors, find the line with the !defined(arm32) && 1 and change 
the 1 to a 0.

Now make sure you have space in /usr/obj to hold object files. I mounted a 
baby disk (200MB) there to capture these files. If you were building on an 
M76 I'd say separate the source and object files on to two different SCSI 
channels, but you can't do that on a VLC.

I usually capture the output of the build into a file so that I can go back 
and figure out where it crashed.

Be prepared to take a _long_ time.

--Chuck


At 11:34 PM 4/27/00 -0700, Mark Redding wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to build -current on a VS4000/VLC and get the following error 
>during "make build".
>
>ld: /usr/src/build/usr/lib: read_file_symbols(header): premature 
>EOF
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit 
>status
>*** Error code 1
>
>This occurred first when the makefile ran the first entry in the "bin" 
>directory.
>I've subsequently manually entered other bin and usr.bin directories and 
>tried manually make'ing other programs (I tried top & cp) and each compile 
>without errors but produce the same error on linking.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>
>P.S. my DESTDIR=/usr/src/build and I have UPDATE=yes set.
>
>
>
>
>Mark Redding
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