Re: fail to compile NetBSD current from Linux at second attempt

El 11/6/26 a las 13:33, Robert Elz escribió:
>      Date:        Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:59:04 +0200
>      From:        Ramiro Aceves <[email protected]>
>      Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
>
>    | But after that success,  I did a "cvs update -A -dP" in /NetBSD/usr/src
>    | and xsrc
>    |
>    | When building again it fails like this:
>
> Yes, that is one of the issues working with HEAD (current) - there are times
> the sources simply don't build, because of other updates made or part made
> (partly because of the nature of CVS, this should be less of a problem after
> we are no longer using that as our primary revision control system).
>
> You simply need to wait a bit for the problem to be fixed, and update again.
>
> For the issue you detected, it should be OK now, but these things happen
> all the time.
>
> Check out https://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/build.cgi to see the cuurrent
> state of the builds for the various branches (but note it can take several
> hours after changes are made before anything shows up there), or for
> some of the ports (architectures) you can get more specific info from
> https://releng.netbsd.org/test-results.html - on that page just click
> on the name of the architecture of interest, with the version of interest
> (HEAD is current), if those exist there (not everything is covered) and
> you'll get taken to a page with monthly build status graphs, where you
> can see how often things are not building (and results from test runs,
> where you can sometimes detect that although a version builds, it might
> not work as desired - though problems with tests are often with the
> tests themselves).
>
> kre

Hello Robert,

Thanks so much for your great and detailed explanation. No problem at 
all, just wanted to know wether I was doing something wrong. You all are 
doing a very valuable job. All of this appears to be very complicated 
(to the eyes of a regular user as I am ;-) )


Regards.

Ramiro.