Re: Toolchain and NetBSD 8

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:57:41AM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> NetBSD 8 will be coming soon. The last time I checked, gcc on NetBSD 7 and
> current still don't work on VAX. This means that there'll no longer be an
> active version of NetBSD/VAX that can compile code.
> 
> Is anyone working on this? What needs to be done?

The state in -current is not that bad, it can compile quite a bit of
pkgs natively. Perl needs work (floating point format issues, not compiler
related), which blocks a lot other pkgs.

The hacks that Felix mentioned should be fixed, but currently they do not
hurt a lot.

Martin