Subject: Re: Building current...
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/07/2003 03:32:22
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, der Mouse wrote:

> > Confirm what?  That the VAX-port isn't built natively regularly?
> > That I can confirm.  I usually do builds of -current now and again
> > (on the 8650), and hits snags that the core group don't notice.
>
> This is what I was afraid of when the cross-build stuff went in, that
> NetBSD would end up shipping code with bugs that went unnoticed because
> they didn't show up in a cross build.

I think we'll be alright as long as we get more VAX people tracking
and compiling -current.  It doesn't require too much in the way of
resources.  I'm managing alright with my 56kb/s dialup and a few GB of
spare disk space.  The bottleneck in the process ends up being VAX cpu
cycles. :-)

-brian.