Packages (was Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd)

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

Hi,

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
> > It could be useful, as it takes forever to build 'em. :-)
> > That said, we should probably do it on a more current version than 6.1.5 for
> > this.
>
> We cannot as gcc doesn't work on 7+.

I've been making packages which should work on both NetBSD 6 and NetBSD 7:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/vax/7.0_2016Q1/All/

I'll begin work on pkgsrc-2016Q2 soon.

> > Did you clean out the directory in between? Otherwise a retry will not do
> > that file again, as you will end up with an empty .o file, which make
> > considers as valid, and it will move on to the next file.
>
> Well the awk core dumps were presumably during the configure stage so
> that should be ok. Even if they were during a make rule then it would
> depend on how the rule was written.

This is my experience - awk tricks are the primary cause of core dumps. I 
haven't run in to .o files created via toolchain problems. I have, though, 
run in to toolchain issues where, for instance, -O0 works (www/dillo, for 
instance), or where memory is an issue (but distcc helps).

John