On 2013/02/15 18:28, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> writes: > > [...] > > > emacs21,no_x11 fails reliably during link: > > Cool... > > [...] > > > it's pretty sad that only ~320 packages built (and several of these > > are just "recompress a bunch of files for things which aren't useful on > > vax anyway"). weird too though, there are various things which should > > have worked which didn't get built (e.g. math/moo). or even attempted, > > from the looks of the dpb logs..? > > 320, where 5.2 shipped with 2279 packages...
yeah, something's wrong there eh? I wonder how the next build will do. (I'm not running them). > > for the broken ports, actually fixing things on vax is so time consuming > > that the only way it's going to happen is if somebody who really wants > > it does the work. running the builds, working out which failures are > > even worth looking at, fixing, sending out diffs, etc. and a lot of > > the people who can do that work are already quite busy enough... > > I'm stupid enough to try, but simh is a no-no. ;) looks like simh on my laptop is about half the speed of a vax 4000/90 at building things. not great but it's not vastly more painful. no idea how network i/o compares but it has been mentioned that that's rather slow..
