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NetBSD/vax vm for github testing



Jan & John's recent patch to fix perl-5.40 to build on VAX prompted a comment from perl upstream

"We probably overlooked this due to lack of smoke-testing reports from non-IEEE fp VAX systems.  Can you suggest how we might get such reports going forward?"

There is an existing package to run Github CI on NetBSD architectures supported by qemu - https://github.com/vmactions/netbsd-vm but that doesn't help VAX.

There is also https://github.com/AaronJackson/2.11BSD-Action which uses simh to test actions in a 2.11BSD PDP11

If someone were able to combine them we could provide people with a recommended way to add NetBSD/VAX to their CI pipeline (albeit on github which is mildly evil, but...)

Much kudos and a starting contribution towards a suitable amount of caffeine ($100) for anyone up for the challenge :)

David




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