Port-vax archive
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]
Re: recent fixes for VAX
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
I know that a great many VAX port problems were fixed recently, bringing
NetBSD/vax back into the realm of usefulness. Did those fixes make it into
the recent 5.0 release? Meaning, if I'm about to put together a VAX on which
to run NetBSD, would I be better off starting with the 5.0 release, or
-current?
As far as I know, all the recent fixes with the exception of the one I
just committed yesterday should be in the 5.0 release. The one exception
is the one that causes problems doing a native build (a couple of the
toolchain groff programs get build with a bad relocation item, causing
them to abort). Restarting the build (multiple times, unfortunately)
would be sufficient to eventually finish a full build.
That last fix has now been pulled up into the netbsd-5 branch, so the
next autobuild should have the bad relocation fixed.
[Note: I think that /usr/bin/troff in the NetBSD 5.0 release probably
has the bad relocation problem as well, which will cause problems trying
to build something that uses troff.]
--
Michael L. Hitch mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University Bozeman, MT USA
Home |
Main Index |
Thread Index |
Old Index