Re: Can't build 5.1.2 kernel (solved)

[Al <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

Hello Frank,

Good to hear from you.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Frank Wille wrote:
> Subject: Re: Can't build 5.1.2 kernel (solved)
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:55:47 -0500 (EST)
> Al <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to let everyone know just how well NetBSD 6 works!
> > There have been major improvements. In fact, it even seems a little
> > bit faster when doing most things. I am very happy with it. I would
> > recommend that everyone upgrades.
>
> Nice to hear! :)
> So there are no problems left?

Yes, all the problems that I have been having with NetBSD 4 have gone 
away. I am really not sure what I did to NetBSD 4 to cause the problems I 
was having, but there were some major issues. Now, I can untar many tar 
balls at one time and the system doesn't crash. I can also use cvs. There 
are other things that are working too. It caches some of the things when 
it is running ./configure when building a package. This makes this a 
little bit faster. Transfer rates seem much higher on the system that I 
have co-located. On a system that I have here locally connecting to the 
internet via a satellite connection now named works. I can do an nslookup 
and use the name server that is on this system and I get an IP. In fact, 
networking has seemed to improve too. There are so many good things to say 
about NetBSD 6.

I have several things in my dmesg that I didn't see before. So, I have a 
few questions about them.

---snip from dmesg---
WARNING: no TOD clock present
WARNING: using filesystem time
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
---snip---

I believe this is what John Klos was referring to in one of his recent 
emails.

---snip from dmesg---
/dev/sd0a: `-o softdep' is no longer supported, consider `-o log'
/dev/sd0e: `-o softdep' is no longer supported, consider `-o log'
/dev/sd0f: `-o softdep' is no longer supported, consider `-o log'
---snip---

I know this is because softdep is no longer supported and removing softdep 
from my fstab will fix this. Still it doesn't seem to create any real 
issues.

Can I switch to log with an existing file system? I am not sure if I even 
have this compiled in.

---snip from dmesg--
cprng sysctl: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying.
---snip---

I am not sure what is causing this last one. Could it be caused from my 
sysctl.conf?

kern.somaxkva=50331648
kern.maxfiles=32768

There is one other thing and that is that I can't build mysql-client. It 
always ends in an error. I am trying from the latest stable pkgsrc. I just 
downloaded pkgsrc-current and I am going to see if it will build with 
that.

Also, I had this problem on NetBSD 4 too. I can not build bogofilter 
because one of the dependents no longer has a 68k version. I guess that I 
could see if there is a way to build bogofilter without this dependency.

Also, is it possible to build packages on a faster system (like macppc) 
and then install them on my port-amiga NetBSD systems using pkg_add? It 
takes a very long time to compile some packages.

Thank you,
Al