Re: NetBSD 9.0

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:36:42AM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > trying to install it, but there is actually no
> > pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/vax/9.0 ?
> 
> pkgsrc for NetBSD 9 has issues. One, OpenSSL in the OS is broken. Two, perl
> doesn't compile and nobody has gotten around to fixing it. I think automake
> is broken, too

While NetBSD 9 works reasonably ok on a simulated MicroVAX3100 inside SIMH,
even there pkgsrc is badly broken. A _lot_ of stuff doesn't compile
with gcc usually dying with internal compiler errors. Turning off the
optimizer (-O0) helps somewhat, but for quite a few packages, editing
generated Makefiles seems to be needed to make that stick.

> I've been working on it a little bit at a time, but I haven't been able to
> dedicate much time to it yet. I only have a handful of packages based on
> using perl 5.28.2.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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