Re: Trouble building Netbsd/amd64/9.99.77 on NetBSD/amd64/10.99.12

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> writes:

> 	hello.  Following up on this post, I've just confirmed the source tree I'm working from is
> still good by building from it using a NetBSD-9.99.77 build host.
> Up to now, it has been my experience  generally I could build any version of NetBSD on any
> other version of NetBSD as a build host.  Is it still a project goal this should be the case?

My impression is that it's a goal that any version can build any
version, within some "sort of close, within reason" test.

For example, I don't expect that if you installed NetBSD 0.8, you could
use that to crossbuild 11, and I have no idea about the other way
around.

I routinely build a version back, and a version or so forward.

It would be interesting for someone on 10 or 11 to try to build netbsd-N
for N in [2345678].   I know building 9 and 10 on 11 are fine, but
that's pretty close.

As for 9.99.77 on 10.99.12, those are really pretty close and should be
fine.   But, the dogma is that for current, the only version that
matters is what's in CVS right this second.  It could be that 10.99.12
is troubled in some way, long ago fixed, and thus nobody cares.

I wonder why you want to run these specific versions, and what would
happen if you updated 10.99.12 to the tip of the netbsd-11 branch.