Hello,

> It bails out almost immediately after start with Fatal Error in subr.S
> line 597 "PIC reference to Sysmap is indirect". I never got this message
> on 3100 (with 1.6), my kernel config file is pretty straightforward
> (almost everything non-VS4k excluded).

Can some gnu as/VAX guru please tell me what the difference between

ashl    $9,*Sysmap[%r0],%r0;

and

ashl    $9,Sysmap[%r0],%r0;

is ? The former is output of gcc compiled kernel source(s) that comes
with 1.6.1 and cannot be assembled, assembler bails out with already
mentioned "PIC reference to Sysmap is indirect" error ? The latter is
not the output of compiler but at least assembler doesn't choke on it. 

I can't possibly imagine that nobody has been able to build 1.6.1 VAX
kernel on 1.6.1 system so far and seeing how fresh-from-ftp installation
doesn't work is very frustrating.

Blaz Antonic
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