Ugh. And I complained about a four hour kernel compile.
Kudos to you all, for patience and effort :-)

/Luke

> John D. Peedle skrev:
>> If you really want to stick a finger in the air, why not cross-compile
>> NetBSD/386 on a VAX... 8)
>
> Might just do that for the hell of it, one of these days... :-)
> But for now, I'm doing a build of /usr/src and /usr/xsrc for 4.99.19 on
> both my 4000-90 and my 8650. A little over two days into it now. The
> 8650 have just started building the libraries, while the 4000-90 are
> deep in usr.sbin
>
> Once I'm done with this, I'll run some benchmarks to get some more feel
> for the systems...
>
> 	Johnny
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org] On
>> Behalf Of chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk
>> Sent: 25 April 2007 10:27
>> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Hooray!
>>
>> bqt@softjar.se wrote:
>>> I've finally managed to build the whole distribution from start to
>>> finish without any hiccups. This is the first time in many years that
>>> has been possible.
>>>
>>> Big congratulations, thank-yous and everything else to those involved.
>>
>>> Mainly Matt Thomas, I believe. We owe you *a lot*. This is the best
>> news
>>> I've had in years.
>>>
>>> Oh, and running "./build.sh build kernel=GENERIC" took a little over
>>> four days on a VAXstation 4000/90.
>>> Now perhaps I should take a new peek at our VAX 7000 machine... :-)
>>> And I should fire up our 8650 and to an upgrade, and see how long that
>>
>>> will take to build it all. Weeks, probably.
>>>
>>> 	Johnny
>>>
>>
>> Great news! Now whenever Slashdot posts a NetBSD story the usual
>> detractors wont be able to sneer at NetBSD's portability by pointing to
>> the inability to do a native build on the Vax. All I need now is to find
>> some spare time to stick current on my VLC and see if Blaz Antonic's
>> framebuffer driver is still working. Even if it is, it would be
>> interesting to see how the code compares to the OpenBSD port of the
>> driver - as the guys who did the porting claim to have made some
>> improvements.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>
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