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From: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Mr T Crummey (DIJ))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: How can one build NetBSD-current?
Date: 13 Jan 1994 12:33:12 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Bangor
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Hello All,

I currently have NetBSD 0.9 installed on my PC and would like to move on to 
NetBSD-current. I pulled all the sources from the tar-files directory on src.doc.ic.ac.uk, and agate.berkeley.edu (since two of the files didn't look
right on src.doc.ic. I uncompressed and untarred the files into my /usr/src
directory and tried to build by typing make...

The first failure was in /usr/src/lib/csu where the Makefile beleived that the
subdirectory to be build was g++ instead of c++. Once I changed this, the compiliation
failed while trying to build the c++rt0.o file with the -fpic flag to the compiler.
I assumed that my current version of gcc was not able to build pic.

Thus I attempted to build the gnu directory. This failed when building CursesW.cc in libg++. Firstly there were a few pages of warnings of implicitly defined functions in
CursesW.h A function call in /usr/include/curses.h didn't appear to have the correct
number of parameters.

The upshot of all this is, are there any documents or mailing lists which could guide me on this process?




Tom.

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