Subject: Re: sigh, this sux d00dz
To: Michael Kukat , Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@freegate.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/23/1999 13:28:21
When I try to gunzip your kernel I get "invalid compressed data - format
violated"
I don't know if it was the download (my browser initially tried to render
the file as test, could you update your mime types?) or what.
--Chuck

At 06:42 PM 3/23/99 +0100, Michael Kukat wrote:
>Hi !
>
>> All I want to do is build the system from source on a uVax II. I'm trying
>> to back port the scheduler fixes into 1.3.2 while I wait for a build of
>> current that is recognized as UNIX. I've got the fixes and I want to build
>> a kernel. On 1.3 I get a hang ('cuz I'm trying to fix it.) and on 1.3.2 I
>> get various VM panics. This basically makes the system unusable. I'm
>> tempted to run the VAX backend on the egcs stuff on a x86 FreeBSD system
>> and try to build it that way.
>> 
>> SO what system does this version build on anyway?
>
>I have absolutely no problems on my VAXstation 3100m76, it compiles my
>kernels since the official 1.3.2-release. I got a problem around the
>990101-version, where "ln" always crashed, but then i installed the new
>current binaries with shared libraries, and everything went fine again.
>I have a crosscompiler lying around somewhere, if you want to compile it
>on i86, but give the uVAX a last try: get the kernel from
>http://www.camaronet.de/download/netbsd.gz, this should run on the uVAX,
>get the current binaries, install 'em and try it. This way it runs fine,
>if it doesn't do on your box, we should check out the uVAX II-support.
>
>so long.. Michael