NetBSD 9.3 and Amiga loadbsd
Roc Vallès <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:17:45 +0900
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.amiga |
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A while ago (October 2021), I had installed a previous 9.x build and found that, unlike source code and documentation, the loadbsd in tools/ directory does not support the flag for using the serial port as console. Dug a little deeper by asking around (on IRC), and I found the reason is that nobody had built it for years (to the point of syntax errors sleeping undetected for years in the main C source file), as it is an AmigaOS tool, requires AmigaOS headers, and cannot be built by netbsd's build system. I did manage to coerce it to build and make it so others can build it, too: https://github.com/rvalles/netbsd_amiga_loadbsd_pleasebuild Unfortunately, it seems I didn't push this enough (I likely only mentioned it on IRC), and Netbsd 9.3 still ships the ancient version. It would be nice if a maintainer could try and resolve this, which could be done by building their own binary or shipping mine (uploaded as a "release" in github above). -- Roc