Re: port-macppc/47464

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/47464; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-macppc/47464
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 22:37:14 +0000

 On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 02:45:01AM +0000, Christian Groessler wrote:
  >  This ticket can potentially be closed.
  >  
  >  I don't remember the exact version of NetBSD on which I
  >  compiled the programs. From the time stamps of the files
  >  it was on May-12-2005 and Oct-18-2006.
  >  
  >  It's quite probable that I was using -current back then, which
  >  in my opinion renders the ticket invalid.
 
 Only if it steps on something that was intentionally removed from
 -current. Which isn't clear. Probably, nobody remembers for sure about
 ppc things that went on in 2005/2006.
 
  >  Still, this version
  >  
  >  NetBSD power.groessler.org 4.0_STABLE NetBSD 4.0_STABLE (POWER) #0: Sat 
  >  Feb  9 21:04:49 CET 2008 
  >  chris%power.groessler.org@localhost:/local/netbsdsrc-4/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/POWER 
  >  macppc
  >  
  >  can run both programs. They fail on current -current
  >  
  >  NetBSD muc-twinppc 7.99.53 NetBSD 7.99.53 (TWINPPC.MP) #0: Sat Dec 31 
  >  09:13:19 CET 2016 
  >  chris@muc-twinppc:/local/netbsd-src/obj/sys/arch/macppc/compile/TWINPPC.MP 
  >  macppc
  >  
  >  
  >  When I compile the programs (not the same sources as
  >  back then since there were some changes to them in the
  >  meanwhile) on the 4.0_STABLE installation, they still can
  >  be run on the -current version.
 
 Since of the binaries says it's from 2.0, and the other from 3.0, it
 would be interesting to check if something freshly compiled on -3
 (rather than -4) now fails, but I assume it would be a nuisance to
 actually do that check...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost