Subject: Newbie problems
To: None <port-pc532@netbsd.org>
From: Jon Buller <jonb@ons.octel.com>
List: port-pc532
Date: 12/21/1994 17:13:09
Well, here's the current state of bullbox (my NetBSD/pc532).  It took
about 23 hours for "cd /usr/src;make" to run. It took another hour or
two to "make install".  I was going to just install the man pages,
since most of them don't seem to come with the tar.gz files.  The only
problem was that "make maninstall" was trying to move binaries into
/usr/bin as well.  So I gave up on that one and just did a full make
install. I would like to say after this ordeal: Wow, no hitches on the
whole thing.  I'm impressed.  Thanks everyone!  Of course, that
operation also leaves me with a couple of questions like:

Where is the binary for the kernel, and was it actually built by all
this?  I don't like mail for a default tool, but until I get the nicer,
better packages, I figured I could put up with it, but it core dumps
just after printing out the list of mail you have waiting to read.  I'm
going to try to look into it myself, but I don't really have a clue how
the make files are supposed to work and what is built into them.  I've
never used gdb either, so this will be a learning experience for me.

So to wrap up: Does anyone have any hints to bring me up to speed
quicker, or piitfalls to avoid?  Thanks again to all involved with
getting NetBSD working on my pc532 (Phil, others in port-pc532, core,
etc.)

Jon Buller