Re: Installations notes for NetBSD 9.1 on a G4 Power Macintosh

[Bob McGowan <bob%bnlmcgowan.net@localhost>]

On 12/30/20 6:29 AM, Adam Russell wrote:
> I have no way of getting errors from the installer. Does anyone? How? Perhaps by doing the install via a serial console and being able to get text or screen grabs from another machine? Something else? Either way I've never done that but wouldn't mind any links with info. I could certainly give it a try.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:13 AM
> To: Adam Russell <ac.russell%live.com@localhost>
> Cc: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: Installations notes for NetBSD 9.1 on a G4 Power Macintosh
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:49:55PM +0000, Adam Russell wrote:
> > I just did another install on another Power Macintosh G4
> > (Quicksilver) I have and this time I noticed that unlike last time
> > that when I grabbed pkgsrc.tar.gz that I needed to manually bootstrap
> > pkgsrc.
> You should not need to do that.
>
> > That is, I tried to build hfsutils and got a cascade of errors about
> > digest, cwrappers, etc and something about not being able to create
> > /ftp/pub?
> We need all the details here to find out what went wrong.
>
> Martin

Hello Adam,

I believe Martin is referring to the errors when you tried to build 
hfsutils, which I would assume you did from a shell?

If you had to do a "bootstrap", before the hfsutils build worked, you 
would need to revert to the pristine state of having just installed 
pkgsrc.  Then run your build of hfsutils as follows:

    $ make <package or whatever> 2>&1 | tee hfsutils_build_errors

You will see all the output as well as capture it for further analysis.

Bob