>If what I surmise about your environment is correct, you may encounter
>another problem: you may have some libraries that aren't included in
>the stock NetBSD 1.3.3 release, or that have been modified and now

True.

>Basically, the only way to maintain your sanity is to build distinct
>binaries for each operating system.  There are tricks you could try

I agree; it is much more important to us to have very stable and reliable
binaries than to speed up our build process a little bit.

>If you've ported cleanly (with #ifdef BSD, #if BSD > N instead of
>#ifdef __NetBSD__ wherever possible) it shouldn't be tootoomuch
>work to do more ports.

Indeed...99% of our porting efforts on Un*x platforms anymore is with
getting the C++ compilers to work.  8^)

Thanks to all for the info!

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Ernest M. Crvich
IBM ODE team
Have footbag, will shred.