But I do appreciate your answer and thank you for it!

Thanks to all that answered-  I think I now am back up to speed with the
state of the netbsd sparc port....(I've been doing some major rewhacking
of the isp driver, so needed to get a latest && greatest for sparc to do
due diligence testing...)


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Scott Smith wrote:

> Oh I'm sorry, I misunderstood your message!
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Sure- you could do that, but the question here is:
> > 
> > 	Has the toolchain been upgraded?
> > 
> > 	Should it be?
> > 
> > 	Is now the time to try and bootstrap a new toolchain out of
> > 	-current?
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Scott Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > Take out -Werror ?
> > > 
> > > Scott
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Probably help to include errors and problems you were seeing.
> > > > 
> > > > config built out of current and the a make produces:
> > > > 
> > > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > > > In file included from ../../../../sys/systm.h:305,
> > > >                  from param.c:48:
> > > > ../../../../lib/libkern/libkern.h:158: warning: conflicting types for
> > > > built-in function `memcmp'
> > > > ../../../../lib/libkern/libkern.h:159: warning: conflicting types for
> > > > built-in function `memcpy'
> > > > ../../../../lib/libkern/libkern.h:161: warning: conflicting types for
> > > > built-in function `memset'
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > and:
> > > > 
> > > > qique.nas.nasa.gov > cc -v
> > > > Using builtin specs.
> > > > gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
> > > > 
> > > > Now, before I attempt to upgrade the toolchain, I thought would like to
> > > > ask the folks who might do this stuff right now what the scoop is.
> > > > 
> > > > I upgrade an alpha (which was a ticklish thing in and of itself) and the
> > > > compiler for *that* platform is:
> > > > 
> > > > poseur > cc -v
> > > > Using builtin specs.
> > > > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I suppose I could ask tech-toolchain, etc., but this is a sparc specific
> > > > question.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Otherwise--is the computer turned on?  ;)
> > > > 
> > > > As much as it ever is...
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > { I've tried to resubscribe to this list, but it hasn't happened yet, so
> > > > > > please respond to me if it suits you... }
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I've installed NetBSD 1.4.1 for sparc, but this won't build a GENERIC
> > > > > > kernel out of -current sources. Is the the comp.tar.gz snapshot on
> > > > > > ftp.netbsd.org appropriate for building kernels? I fooled around with
> > > > > > trying to bootstrap myself from 1.4 to -current last week and had a bad
> > > > > > time of it (seems that a  switch to ELF is happening?)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > -matt
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --
> > > > > scott@lackluster.net
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> > > > > 
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> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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