> Apparently the only sources we can grab are the current sources?
> If we actually want to build a kernel, using something that has
> built a kernel before and compiles, what should one do?  Check out
> some CVS version that corresponds to 1.2D?

You could use the 1.2 sources and binaries, if the system you want to
use is supported by 1.2.


> I know the current sources are not warranted to compile, but I can't
> even get past config :).  It complains rightly that std.alpha is in
> the config dir, not in arch/alpha/conf, which is where we're supposed
> to run config, I thought, and that there are errors in files.alpha and
> syntax errors in /sys/conf/files (defopt).

Rebuild your config binary.  That'll at least get you started.


> Is everyone using something else?  Did I grab source on the wrong day?
> (What _is_ NetBSD 1.2.1 and why isn't there an alpha dir?).  OK, what
> I really mean is 'help' :-).

NetBSD 1.2.1 is a patch release to NetBSD 1.2.  For a variety of
reasons (centering around the fact that 1.2.1 was finalized ... a lot
later than it was supposed to be, and the fact that the people who had
volunteered to do a 1.2.1 build backed out), no 1.2.1 binaries were
built for the Alpha.


It'd be nice if somebody would build a new Alpha snapshot.  I would,
but I don't have the machines to do it with.  (In fact, I don't even
know the last time anyone built the full source tree on the alpha...)
Several people have expressed interest in building alpha snapshots,
and have been given my approval to do so, but none have actually done
it...



cgd