NetBSD/vax vm for github testing
David Brownlee <[email protected]>
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Jan & John's recent patch to fix perl-5.40 to build on VAX prompted a comment from perl upstream "We probably overlooked this due to lack of smoke-testing reports from non-IEEE fp VAX systems. Can you suggest how we might get such reports going forward?" There is an existing package to run Github CI on NetBSD architectures supported by qemu - https://github.com/vmactions/netbsd-vm but that doesn't help VAX. There is also https://github.com/AaronJackson/2.11BSD-Action which uses simh to test actions in a 2.11BSD PDP11 If someone were able to combine them we could provide people with a recommended way to add NetBSD/VAX to their CI pipeline (albeit on github which is mildly evil, but...) Much kudos and a starting contribution towards a suitable amount of caffeine ($100) for anyone up for the challenge :) David