On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> > Another problem that doesn't have anything to do with the previous one is
> > that I have a lot of problems compiling programs from the ports collection.
> > The compile usually stops with "illegal reloc type mix" somewhere in the
> > last lines. I can't remember getting these messages with 1.4.1, but I didn't
> > use X on it back then, and it has been close to a year since the last
> > reboot/install :-) so I could be wrong.
> 
> 	This would probably be with KDE and other large c++ programs?
>

Out of 18 installed packages I got the precompiled version for these:

Mesa-3.1, fvwm2, gsm, libtool, readline, rplay, rx and xlockmore. Some of
them don't seem that large?
 
> 	I believe this is fixed in 1.5_ALPHA, otherwise for 1.4.X
> 	you can use the 'c++rt0.o.PIC' in 
> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/c++rt0/
> 	(see the README in that dir).
> 
>                 David/absolute


-Rik van Mierlo
-rik@ricardis.tudelft.nl