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@.) 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
