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Re: Proposed obsoletions
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-05 12:41:43 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
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>>* vax-*-bsd*
>>* vax-*-sysv*
>> If anyone is still using these, GCC probably doesn't run already. I
>> certainly haven't seen any test results. Correct me if I'm wrong!
>> And after some staring, I think these are bad models for new ports.
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> vax-*-sysv* is probably dead. NetBSD using a.out most probably, too.
Actually, that's BSD 4.3/4.4 there. (vax-*-bsd*)
> Though, vax-netbsdelf may be fine up. At least, I can get vax-linux (or
> vax-elf) compiler (only adding some 5 lines for configury) that works
> and produces a correctly working Linux kernel image (see eg.
> http://www.pergamentum.com/pipermail/linux-vax/2005-May/000002.html).
> So VAXens shape isn't most probably all that bad right now.
Yes, I absolutely think vax-netbsdelf should be kept; we know that it works.