I've seen some people mention cross compiling...

Sure, cross compiling might be faster...

But, a big part of retrocomputing (please don't try to say that you're
not all retrocomputing nuts; you're running VAXen! :-) is enduring the
pain of compiling software for your system... including the operating
system..

I mean, when my sun3 was still working, I built the world on it, rather
than on my (much faster) HP 380 (which has a 25MHz 68040).

The point is, your VAX desperately wants to be self-hosting... let it.
It will love you for it...

Ok, enough from me... time to get back to building a serial cable for _my_
VAX (which I hope to install 1.3 on soon :-)

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