Building a snapshot worthwhile?

[Olaf Seibert]

As you may have noticed from a few previous mails, I'm currently doing a
make build on my VAXstation 3100/M38. Since the previous snapshot is
already 3 months old, I was wondering whether it's worth the trouble to
fully build a snapshot and make it available. It's just not going to be
finished very quickly ;-) since this VAX does not build quite as quickly
as my alpha.

I already did a make build with the alpha on the same sources (supped 24
february), so I know they should compile without too much trouble. In
fact, it seems the previous snapshot already had a new-enough make (I
had to update it separately on the alpha).

-Olaf.
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[Olaf Seibert]

On Mon 28 Feb 2000 at 12:23:25 +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Yes.

Good. My VAX just seems to have crashed though, doing

dependall ===> bin/stty
mkdep -a -nostdinc -idirafter /vol1/rhialto/destdir.vax/usr/include /vol1/rhialto/sup/root/src/bin/stty/cchar.c /vol1/rhialto/sup/root/src/bin/stty/gfmt.c /vol1/rhialto/sup/root/src/bin/stty/key.c /vol1/rhialto/sup/root/src/bin/stty/modes.c /vol1/rhialto/sup/root/src/bin/stty/print.c /vol1/rhialto/sup/root/src/bin/stty/stty.c

and I'm not at home to reboot it (it doesn't seem to come back by
itself) or see the console. /vol1 is on NFS, by the way. So that will
be half a day's worth of extra delay.

> -is

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:58:17PM +0100, Olaf Seibert wrote:

> As you may have noticed from a few previous mails, I'm currently doing a
> make build on my VAXstation 3100/M38. Since the previous snapshot is
> already 3 months old, I was wondering whether it's worth the trouble to
> fully build a snapshot and make it available.

Yes.

-is

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[Olaf Seibert]

On Mon 28 Feb 2000 at 12:31:58 +0100, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> On Mon 28 Feb 2000 at 12:23:25 +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > Yes.
>
> Good. My VAX just seems to have crashed though, doing

So it hasn't crashed, I discovered, it had merely halted back to the >>>
prompt. It seems to do that a short time after I turn off the console
terminal, which is quite annoying. Unplugging the console first seems to
help though.

[Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES]

Olaf Seibert wrote:

> So it hasn't crashed, I discovered, it had merely halted back to the >>>
> prompt. It seems to do that a short time after I turn off the console
> terminal, which is quite annoying. Unplugging the console first seems to
> help though.

Yeah, powering off the terminal probably makes it look like its sending
a break.

Paul
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