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Michael L. Hitch skrev:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
>> Curious qustion: why? After all, the shared library stuff was fixed at 
>> the same time as a bunch of problems with both gcc and other parts. Is 
>> really even possible to pull up all the other fixes without getting 
>> the ability to also build shared libraries again?
> 
>   Fixing the problems only required a few (9) pullups, and since I had 
> found some of them, and had been testing all the fixes, I knew pretty 
> much which commits were involved and could test each one before 
> requesting the pullups.
> 
>   The shared library changes are in around 50 commits, many involving 
> more than one file.  I am not one who would blindly request pullups on 
> all of those changes without verifying that they all patch cleanly.

Ok. Fair enough. You definitely knows better exactly how much needed to 
be fixed. I thought that it was mostly gcc fixing, of which there was 
some for bugs in gcc anyway. But there are probably a bunch of details 
I'm unaware of.

>> Or is it just a question of not having the build system build this?
>> I would be less surprised if netbsd-4 were to be still broken for VAX, 
>> since there was quite a few things not working right a month or so ago.
> 
>   I have built netbsd-4 on an amd64 build system, updated my 4000/90A 
> using that build, doing a tools build and GENERIC kernel build on the 
> vax and booted the resulting kernel.  That covers most of the problems 
> I've encountered.

Yes, that should be pretty much good enough.

	Johnny

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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email: bqt@softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
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