Nice work! Way to go.. I moved recently but didn't bring my VAXen. Seems like
alot has happened to VaxBSD now; I should bring the machines here next time i
visit Stockholm.

Oscar

Matt Thomas wrote:

> I have committed the final changes to enable shared libraries
> on the VAX port.  I have successfully rebuilt NetBSD/vax using
> a system which is running shared libraries.
>
> To support shared libraries, the VAX port now uses EGCS and
> gas.new.
>
> Some caveats though:
>
>         1)  Due to an EGCS bug, some files don't build at -O.
>             But they build at either -O0 or -O2 (I've been doing
>             my builds at -O2).
>
>             So place CFLAGS=-O2 in your /etc/mk.conf.
>
>         2)  When linking shared, you will see lots of RRS text
>             relocations (usually for ___sF).  This is due to the
>             way a.out shared libraries interact with VAX
>             addressing interacting with a limitation of ld(1).
>             I will fix this when I move the toolchain to ELF
>             someday.
>
> So almost 2 decades since BSD starting running on VAXes, it now
> has shared libraries. :-)
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