Re: netbsd-11 vs. SUNW,qfe; hmeX: device timeout?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 14:45:24 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 06:19:53 -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
>
>> I cannot even build 'nbmake' on my 10.1_STABLE/amd64 build host.  It
>> complains about:
>> 
>> [...]
>> cc -o nbmake *.o  
>> ld: buf.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
>
> gcc switched to -fno-common by default at some point in about that
> time frame.  You should be able to dodge this by adding -fcommon to
> HOST_CFLASG and HOST_CXXFLAGS to build older tools programs (that
> (usually unintentionally) rely on common) on newer host systems (that
> default to -fno-common).

I was hoping that adding those to my local "mk.conf" would work, but it
didn't.  I ultimately had to add them as environment variables before the
invocation of 'build.sh'.

Whatever made netbsd-9 unstable on hme(4) interfaces on qfe cards, it
happened pretty soon after the 9.0 release.  On my second iteration just
a little over a month after 9.0.


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