Re: Installing -current

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Looking at the commit message for GENERIC, it seems that Matt is in the process 
of adding TC support for the VAX.
I guess he comitted some stuff, but not some other... :-)

        Johnny

David Brownlee skrev:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm failing to compile some of the more interesting packages with
> > NetBSD-4.0 .  It seems -current should come along with the PIC-fixed
> > compiler and shared libs enabled. How do I install that on a naked
> > SIMH VAX? I tried to find some binaries, but it seems all the snapshot
> > and daily directories don't contain any VAX packages?
>
>     It looks like there is an issue building a -current kernel:
>
> /home/builds/ab/HEAD/src/sys/dev/tc/asc_tcds.c:451:2: error: #error 
> TURBOchannel only exists on DECs, folks...
>
>     Interestingly that section has not changed since 2000
>
> #if defined(__alpha__)
>                         addr = (u_int32_t *)ALPHA_PHYS_TO_K0SEG(pa);
> #elif defined(__mips__)
>                         addr = (u_int32_t *)MIPS_PHYS_TO_KSEG1(pa);
> #else
> #error TURBOchannel only exists on DECs, folks...
> #endif
>
>     So it looks likely that some change has caused that file to be
>     included in the vax build.
>
>     As a quick test you could:
>     - Download and extract NetBSD current src - the tar.gz files from
>       ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src
>     - comment out any line starting asc from
>       sys/arch/vax/conf/GENERIC and sys/arch/vax/conf/INSTALL
>     - Run './build.sh -m vax release' (should work on any NetBSD
>       architectures and most other unix like systems, eg Linux etc)

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