Hi,
I told you I got that VAX 4000-200 (not quite in my hands yet but
soon.) But I really want to make it the fastest VAX around, i.e.
that would be a -700 or something, right? Is such upgrade done
simply by replacing the CPU blade? Or is there anything different
about the Q-bus, PSU or whatnot?
NetBSD's highest line of VAX is the -300 or -500, right? This is
going to be my machine to build NetBSD kernels (I have basically
given up on doing difficult development jobs on the VAX6000s. They're
too slow. I have been trying three times to build GCC-2.98 and it
failed every time. It's actually not so slow if you can do a parallel
make, however, with GNU make and the -j option things get confused
when bulding GCC. I think GNU make doesn't do a good job of keeping
track of the dependencies between the parallel jobs, or, may be,
the way the GCC makefiles are written they might escape GNU make's
ernest attempt in synchronizing the parallel jobs.
BTW: I remember Jason Thorpe said at BSDcon 2002 that NetBSD
would soon be using GCC-3.0's full featured cross-platform
compiling capabilities. Is that done already? I gues the best
way for quick kernel build and debug turnaround would be doing
it on my Laptop, which is by far my fastest machine.
thanks,
-Gunther
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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 19:54:51 BST