Re: Summary of VAX port status

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

> My takeaway (please correct me where I'm wrong):
>
> 1) native builds on 4.0.1 are broken

Probably.

> 2) native builds on current... ??

Need to be restarted a few times, but generally works.

> 3) native builds of pkgsrc are broken

In NetBSD 4, lots of stuff doesn't work. In NetBSD 5 or current, all the 
major packages work.

> 4) pkgsrc can't be crosscompiled.

Never could be. There's been SOME work on it, but not

> Is all that right?  Is it impossible for me to get a working bash shell 
> on VAX?

Of course not. With NetBSD 5, I'm running bind-9.6, apache 2.2.11, bash 
3.whatever, pine, imap-uw, sendmail, procmail, stunnel, and lots of other 
things.

John