Re: Native Build of -current

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

Hi.

Michael Schneider wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just to give another data point:
> I just finished a native build of -current from January 16th sources, 
> starting from a fairly fresh netbsd-5 install.
>
> I had the "usual" problems with groff segfaulting while building 
> pics.ps, grnexmpl.ps and other  ps-files.

Expected. :-)

> I also had a complete lockup while building the lint libraries for libm. 
> I have not looked further into this, just disabled the building of lint 
> libraries ("MKLINT = no") because is supected a hardware problem (i have 
> memory boards of questionable origin), but i might be wrong with that 
> because it always locked up in libm.
> The next run will be with "MKLINT = yes" to see what happens.

Considering that you're not the only one getting the hang (and I get it 
in libm while doing lint as well), I very much doubt you have some 
hardware problem.
Instead it's something wrong in NetBSD/vax. I've posted about this 
before, and also added some additional observations which people should 
find interesting.

> I now get this while booting:
>     [...]
>     Clearing temporary files.
>     Creating a.out runtime link editor directory cache.
>     [1]   Killed                  ${ldconfig_comma...

That don't sound right...

>     Checking quotas: done.
>     [...]
>
> But all else seems to be fine.

Hmmm... Did you update the files in /etc?

> Now i'm going to try an update build to get the latest changes, an then 
> i'll do an fresh clean build to see whether -current can rebuild itself.
>
> But this will, of course, take a few days...

:-)

        Johnny