On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:30:23AM +0100, Gary Parker wrote:
> I've successfully set up CVS on the machine and compiled and installed some
> bits and bobs like bash and screen but I decided I need to do openssl and
> openssh as well so they'd be optimized for the V8 hardware in my machine.

Just recompile the base system stuff with something like this in /etc/mk.conf:

.if ${CFLAGS:N-pipe}
CFLAGS += -pipe -mcpu=v8 -mtune=supersparc
.endif

> Before anyone says that 1.6.2 is waaaay out of date I'm just getting my head
> around this before trying to track current and (hopefully) get myself a 2.0
> kernel running both CPUs.

You should realy start with a 2.0_BETA system from ftp://releng.netbsd.org

Martin