Hi! Just freshly installed a SIMH VAX from the release ISO (cross-compiled on Linux from trunk) and noticed that a new pkgsrc dir (http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/vax/10.0_2022Q4/All/ instead of previously used 9.3) showed up. I'm really happy to see a working bash, a working vim and even perl showed up. (I've recently built Perl, it only needed a CFLAGS=-O0). I really appreciate this preat progress! As I'm already doing a lot of mass-building (cf. http://toolchain.lug-owl.de/), is there something I can actually help with? Ie. mass-build packages, propose "CFLAGS=-O0" patches for pkgsrc, things like that? SIMH is convenient, but I'd also use a 4000/60 or /90A or /96 or something like that to build on real hardware if that's a specific requirement. In the long term, I'd like to automate some test-installations of the VAX release to real hardware (as I've done with the SIMH VAX with `expect`), but I'm still working on getting a room to setup my available hardware. MfG, JBG --
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