Re: Installing -current

[Henry Bent <hbent%cs.oberlin.edu@localhost>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 10:27:10 +0100, Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > Jan-Benedict Glaw skrev:
> > > 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?
> > No, -current have shared libs and PIC fixed compiler, but it is also a 
> > broken compiler, along with a broken system.
>
> Do you know what's actually broken?

Short answer: the kernel.  Possibly other things, too.  Matt Thomas 
seems to be actively checking in fixes, though.

> > So there are no builds of -current for VAX, and haven't been for over six 
> > months...
>
> To draw the line: There's no way installing a "current" VAX?

Correct.  I think the closest you'll get is to have cvs give you 
-current sources from a while back and build a release from those.  I am 
running 4.99.19 and it seems to be OK; I built it on May 5 2007 from 
sources that were probably less than a week old at that point.

-Henry Bent