Subject: Re: Compiled binaries?
To: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
From: Rob Windsor <windsor@punk.hedgehog.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/17/1995 01:17:11
Verily did Mike Frisch write:

> 	Is there anywhere on the 'net where I can get compiled binaries 
> for NetBSD/sparc?  I am in the process of building the most popular utils 
> that I am used to having, but this is tedious and time consuming.  To top 
> it all off, not everything is working as well as it should be.

> 	Basically, I am looking for C-News, INN, nntpd, Bash 1.14.5 (got 
> it to compile, but seg faults regularly), Pine, Elm, and a few others.

> Any info would be appreciated.

Bash fix (apologies to who posted this first, I no longer have that e-mail):

grind$ diff -r -c ../../src/bash-1.14.5 .
diff -r -c ../../src/bash-1.14.5/machines.h ./machines.h
*** ../../src/bash-1.14.5/machines.h    Wed May 31 08:05:02 1995
--- ./machines.h        Thu Sep 28 02:10:56 1995
***************
*** 96,101 ****
--- 96,102 ----
  #  define VOID_SIGHANDLER
  #  define HAVE_DIRENT
  #  define HAVE_STRCASECMP
+ #  undef USE_GNU_MALLOC /* Aligns on 4, we need 8 for long long */
  #endif /* sparc && __NetBSD__ */
  
  #if defined (sun) && !defined (M_MACHINE)

Enjoy.

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