Re: CMD MSCP SCSI problems? (again?)

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

On 2023-02-08 22:03, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 2/8/23 15:51, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > >   Wow, I've not compiled a NetBSD kernel in a very long time, that'll 
> > > be fun. :-)  I'll see if I can get to that this week.  I suppose I'll 
> > > have to do an install under simh to get to that point.
> >
> > Cross-compile it?  I mean, isn’t that what **everybody** does? :-)
>
>    Ahh, perhaps, but the last time I built a NetBSD/vax kernel, I did it 
> natively...that should tell you how long ago that was. ;)

A *very* long time ago. :-)

>    I'm figuring out the cross-compilation tools, build.sh, etc now.  I 
> must say the documentation on how to get this set up is slightly 
> lacking, for something everybody does. ;)

Hmm. I remember back when I started using build.sh. It took a little 
time to get used to using it instead of just building what I wanted 
directly using make, but I must say it's very easy and straight forward.

Basically, if you have a running system, you just have the source tree 
checked out. You stand in there, run "build.sh -m vax <whatever>" and 
that's it. You usually do not need to do anything more. And the 
<whatever> part can be checked in the build.sh script, or just try 
running without arguments. But you can use it to build the tools, the 
distribution tar-sets and the kernel, with just a couple of arguments.

If I were to do things from scratch, I might do

"build.sh -m vax distribution sets kernel=GENERIC"

and that will do everything you possibly need.
Then you have the tar-balls you get onto your vax, and just unpack them. 
Or if you netboot, just unpack on the file system you boot, and off you go.

  Johnny

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