> 
> So, i realized something sort-of cool yesterday...  One good way to
> help debug NetBSD/Alpha is to port software which includes regression
> tests and run the regression tests...
> 
> This not only has the potential to build an archive of ported software
> (if somebody's actually collecting the results), but also can exercise
> basic system functionality in a reasonable way...
> 
> Anyway, pdksh compiles out of the box under NetBSD/Alpha, and perl
> 5.002 compiles out of the box (with a few different Configure answers
> than the defaults; we don't have shared libs or dynamic loading)...
> The perl regression tests found a serious libc bug in the
> ndbm-emulation functions...  They're fixed in -current, but probably
> wouldn't have been noticed for a long time, otherwise...
> 
> 
> chris
> 

I've an archive of netbsd-alpha binaries which I ported/compiled on my
ftp-archive. Feel free to download whatever needed or alternatively
let me know where you want me to upload it to.

cheerio Berndt
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Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
E-Mail	: wulf@hotdog.apana.org.au
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