15 Jul
2016
15 Jul
'16
9:13 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Mouse wrote:
But it comes at a price. NetBSD/vax, for example, has
trouble
self-hosting, and nobody knows why, because it shows up only in native
builds.
Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. I've only used it in the context of other
platforms and variants.
Nobody knows whether there's a subtle bug in the
cross-compiler
generating a broken native compiler, or there's a subtle bug in the
compiler that shows up only in native VAX builds, or what. (Or at least
that's what I've gathered from following port-vax at .)
Aww. That breaks my fantasy that the list was full of highly motivated VAX
gods. :-)
If I were still following NetBSD I'd be taking a
real VAX and trying to
figure out when things went south, doing all the builds native.
It's too bad for the NetBSD team that you aren't. You'd be a killer asset
to any FOSS project, I'm sure. That goes 10x for one involving VAXes.
-Swift