Hi,

here's my experiences with trying to install 1.1 ALPHA using a
current from around Feb/March, from the source which I supped (again)

lex didn't compile - syntax error in source code.
xlint didn't compile - no lint

kernel:
genassym didn't compile - various things are defined as extern in psl.h
and not defined anywhere else (e.g. Cur_pl, sirpending, check_sir).
I took the definitions from intr.c and that solved that problem.

pc532/init.c didn't compile.  ICUB and ICUW generated integer overflow
errors.  Compiling without -traditional solved that.

I still use the 2.5.8 binary.  I believe some people (Matthias) are
using 2.7.something.

The resulting kernel hangs as already noted by Jordan Hubbard among
others (Hi Jordan!).  It boots OK at power up, but hangs the second
time from reset.  It seems to boot if reset a second time.


I tried out uucp but as I already found out a year ago there are
problems with hardware flow control.  slip and ppp work - rtscts
doesn't seem to be so critical there.  However uucp gets totally
confused.  I have tried an identical configuration between a variety
of other machines, both local and at the other end of a modem.  I have
had no other problems at all.  Just sending stuff *to* the *532*
consistently doesn't work.  The 532 can send OK.

I noticed that when I run ttyflags with -v it reports an inappropriate
ioctl for every tty.  So I don't know whether rtscts is really broken
or whether it just can't be turned on for some reason.  But whatever,
it doesn't work.

Finally, did anyone else have problems with sup on Monday evening (GMT)?
All files received produced a gzip: unexpected eof error and ended up
with length zero when I supped.  Rather annoying after having spend
*days* resupping the entire source tree.

Stuart Arnold