Try switching to a GENERICSBC kernel (or _from_ one).

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Andy Finnell wrote:

> The more I try to use/setup my new 1.4 installation, the more problems I find.
> 
> The first thing I was trying to do is install m4.  So I went and
> downloaded the pkgsrc file and untar'ed it.  I attempted the command
> 
> make fetch-list | sh
> 
> while in  csh inside the m4 directory, but all I got was make, sh, and
> csh core dumps.  However if I changed the command to 
> 
> make fetch-list | csh
> 
> everything went fine, at least for that command.  Next I tried
> 
> make
> 
> to build the package, but after telling me it was extracting the archive
> (m4 in this case), it hung, then core dumped.  A bit flustered, I
> attempted to install m4 by hand.  Issuing the command
> 
> ./configure
> 
> inside the m4 directory almost got the configure script to finish.  In
> the last few steps csh core dumped.  I switched to bash and tried again,
> and it worked (most of the settings were in cache now).  However running
> the command
> 
> make
> 
> just generated yet another core dump (make this time).
> 
> I've installed a clean system twice, but with the same results.  Any
> ideas why nothing seems to be working?  I running NetBSD 1.4 on a
> MacIIci with 8 MB ram and approx 260 MB hard drive space.  I'm
> installing from a CD.  Thanks in advance,
> 
> 	-andy
> 

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