Re: NetBSD/vax lives again!

["Christer O. Andersson" <christer%a-son.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:47:19PM +1030, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> Christer O. Andersson wrote:
> > You can very easily build a full installation from anything *NIX. I have
> > recently built the full VAX installation from my Linux laptop.
> > 
> > Once you have the source tree, cd to src and use build.sh
> > 
> > My commands were:
> > 
> > ./build.sh -m vax -T ../tools/vax -U -u tools
> 
> I thought I'd have a crack at this on Ubuntu/Gutsty, I downloaded the source
> sets for 4.0 and it builds many of the tools file, but barfs like so;
> 
> khawti01@terra:~/Desktop/build/usr/src$ ./build.sh -m vax -T ../tools/vax -U

<snip>

> terminal.c:(.text+0xce6): undefined reference to `tputs'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> *** Failed target:  ginfo
> *** Failed command: cc -O -o ginfo dir.o display.o dribble.o echo-area.o
> filesys.o footnotes.o gc.o indices.o info-utils.o info.o infodoc.o infomap.o
> m-x.o man.o nodemenu.o nodes.o search.o session.o signals.o terminal.o tilde.o
> variables.o window.o doc.o key.o ../lib/libtxi.a
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> nbmake: stopped in
> /home/khawti01/Desktop/build/usr/src/tools/texinfo/obj/build/info
> 
> 
> thoughts?

Could it be that you happened to grab the sources during update?

I just did:
cd src
cvs update -dP
./build.sh -m vax -T ../tools/vax-tst -U -u tools

and finally got:

===> Tools built to /home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst
===> build.sh ended:   Fri Feb 22 07:34:57 CET 2008
===> Summary of results:
         build.sh command: ./build.sh -m vax -T ../tools/vax-tst -U -u
tools
         build.sh started: Fri Feb 22 07:27:16 CET 2008
         NetBSD version:   4.99.54
         MACHINE:          vax
         MACHINE_ARCH:     vax
         Build platform:   Linux 2.6.21.5 i686
         HOST_SH:          /bin/sh
         No /home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst/bin/nbmake, needs
building.
         Bootstrapping nbmake
         TOOLDIR path:     /home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst
         DESTDIR path:     /home/NetBSD/src/obj/destdir.vax
         RELEASEDIR path:  /home/NetBSD/src/obj/releasedir
         Created /home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst/bin/nbmake
         makewrapper:
/home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst/bin/nbmake-vax
         Updated /home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst/bin/nbmake-vax
         Tools built to /home/NetBSD/src/../tools/vax-tst
         build.sh ended:   Fri Feb 22 07:34:57 CET 2008
===> .


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Christer O. Andersson
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