Subject: Re: snapshot status
To: Darrin B. Jewell <dbj@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-next68k
Date: 04/22/1999 17:23:27
Darrin B. Jewell writes:
> 
> So, it turns out that the pre-alpha snapshot nfs problems were with my
> nfs server and not the snapshot.  Unfortunately, this delayed me
> getting out the alpha snapshot.  My machine is currently running the
> pre-alpha snapshot and building the beta snapshot, although gcc segv'd
> this morning trying to compile something in usr.bin/talk

I've been having problems with programs dying with an illegal instruction
after building them on my cube.  Cross compiled binaries are fine.
I am not completely sure I've gotten *everything* rebuilt cleanly though.

> As you can see, the road is being a bit rocky.  I'll re-upload the
> pre-alpha snapshot tonight. (I screwed up, I should have just left it
> up for ftp when I built it two weeks ago) And hopefully, i'll be able
> to get a beta release ready soon.  With any luck, whatever sources
> are frozen for 1.4 will have been at least booted once by someone other
> than me.

If I can't get my machine to do a clean build in the next couple of days,
I'll grab the snapshot and test it.

-Andrew
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