Re: NetBSD/vax 11.0RC1

On Sun 22 Feb 2026 at 07:58:02 -0500, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> On 2026-02-22 07:44, Ken Wellsch wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 06:43:42AM -0500, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> > > On 2026-02-13 16:03, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> > > > Anybody tried it already?
> > > Replying to my own email:
> > > yes, I did:
> > > on a 4000/90, took 5 days for a "build tools"
> > > and two days for "build kernel"
> > > 
> > > Spend pretty much 3-4 days in gcc compile, as it really was swapping.
> > > 
> > > But, it worked at all, so I'm happy, and thanks to all,
> > > who still work on it!
> > 
> > Thank you for reporting!  Well, that would suggest, presuming there
> > is not some way I could munge things, that simh 3.12-5 does not play
> > well with allowing the 3900 emulation to use 512M of memory.
> 
> But it worked before? IIRC, some people reported having successful compiles
> on earlier versions? (9.*, 10.*?)

It failed with simh 3.x you say? Can you try with open-simh (which is in
pkgsrc and at version 4.x)? It may or may not make a difference.

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                            <rhialto/at/falu.nl>
\X/ There is no AI. There is just someone else's work.           --I. Rose

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