On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, David Brownlee wrote:
Heres hoping the native build goes well...
Whats next on the list, bootblocks? :)
There are at least 3 or 4 major problems:
Native build fails when trying to run the pic and/or grops tool
executable due to bad relocation types. Even the cross-compiled troff
executable has the same problem when built on an amd64 system (the
netbsd-5-0_RC1 and netbsd-5-0_RC2 builds have a bad executable, and my
own build has the same problem). I've appended more information to
Greg's PR39182.
Native builds (when continued several times after the above problem)
will hang the machine when it tries compiling libm/catan.ln. I'm trying
to collect some more information on that and will submit a PR.
It seems that ssh corrupts inbound data. It's been mentioned a couple
of times on port-vax. I had seen it quite some time ago when trying to
run a cvs update, but wasn't aware at the time it was an ssh problem
instead of hardware/network. Running the ssh on the remote system
(inbound through sshd instead of ssh) seems to work, as well as non-ssh
transfers. Again, I've been collecting information on that problem and
will be submitting another PR. I hit this again when trying to copy a
test kernel and didn't realize that was the problem for a while.
Response on netbsd-5 (and presumably -current) gets rather poor when
it's busy (such as running the native build). This could be related to
the second problem mentioned above, but it's hard to tell at this point.