Subject: Re: Building current...
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/07/2003 14:03:17
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.

Still, it's better than nothing. They do catch most of the stuff.

> I'm not sure whether I'd rather have that than nothing.  Perhaps if the
> cross-built stuff were unmistakably marked as cross-built, so that
> people are forewarned....

That would probably be a good idea.

	Johnny

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