Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim

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

Brad Parker wrote:
> Matt Fleming wrote:
> > NetBSD/vax is not currently capable of self-hosting. It doesn't even have
> > shared library support :-(
>
> I'm confused.  what are all those *.so files in /lib?  sure look like
> shared libraries to me.

Matt is wrong. There is shared library support. It was broken for a 
while -current, but it got sorted out again.

> but i'm currently using a 2.0.3 kernel & userland, so I'm in the stone age.

Actually, those were the good days.

> maybe I should try 4.0.1 first?  are there major changes in 5.0? (and
> hence no shared lib support yet?)

Shared library support is in there, along with a more modern gcc.
Apart from that, the system have just grown larger and slower.
And there are bugs in there, which haven't been exposed properly (I 
know, I should write some bug reports).

        Johnny