> 
> seems to be impossible to make build from the extant tarballs of arch-sparc
> to current. sh hangs permanento doing ./mknodes and is ungdb-able.
> 

On the sparc nothing is gdb-able without recent (older than a week) kernel
source.

Also, programs compiled from fresh sources (and header files) likely won't
run on older kernels. Try to build a new kernel first from an up-to-date
/usr/src/sys directory. The existing `config.new' should work fine. Perhaps
building genassym is a bit of a problem, if so, try building with assym.s
included below which was generated on my machine only a few days ago. Use
at your own risk, though...

-pk

#define	BSD	199103
#define	UPAGES	2
#define	NBPG	4096
#define	KERNBASE	-134217728
#define	USRSTACK	-134217728
#define	P_ADDR	240
#define	P_STAT	44
#define	P_WCHAN	96
#define	P_VMSPACE	32
#define	SRUN	2
#define	VM_PMAP	132
#define	VM_PMAP_CTX	132
#define	VM_PMAP_CTXNUM	136
#define	V_SWTCH	0
#define	V_INTR	12
#define	V_FAULTS	20
#define	PG_W	1073741824
#define	PG_VSHIFT	30
#define	PG_PROTSHIFT	29
#define	PG_PROTUREAD	4
#define	PG_PROTUWRITE	6
#define	FS_REGS	0
#define	FS_FSR	128
#define	FS_QSIZE	132
#define	FS_QUEUE	136
#define	FSR_QNE	8192
#define	SYS_sigreturn	103
#define	SYS_execve	59
#define	SYS_exit	1
#define	EFAULT	14
#define	ENAMETOOLONG	63
#define	PCB_NSAVED	24
#define	PCB_ONFAULT	12
#define	PCB_PSR	8
#define	PCB_RW	32
#define	PCB_SP	0
#define	PCB_PC	4
#define	PCB_UW	16
#define	PCB_WIM	20
#define	IE_REG_PTE	-200323072
#define	AUCB_SIZE	4096
#define	CB_HEAD	0
#define	CB_TAIL	4
#define	CB_PAUSE	14
#define	CB_DATA	24
#define	CB_DROPS	16
#define	CB_PDROPS	16
#define	CB_THRESH	8
#define	CB_WAKING	12
#define	AU_AMD	0
#define	AU_RB	24
#define	AU_WB	4144
#define	AU_STAMP	4
#define	AMD_IR	0
#define	AMD_BBRB	5
#define	AMD_BBTB	5

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