Mail Archive Updated

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> While things progress with about zero speed, I just updated the
> current web archive with all former emails that I could get my hands
> on.
> 
> 	http://vax-linux.org/pipermail/vax-linux/
> 
> If you find any errors, or happen to have even more emails, please
> drop me a note!

 Yay!

 And to contradict the alleged zero speed I shall take the opportunity to 
announce the small port update I uploaded a few days ago to my FTP site.

 Included are new GDB packages, both a native one (featuring gdbserver as 
well) and an i386-to-VAX cross-debugger (capable of talking to gdbserver 
from the native package).  They work reasonably, but require a kernel 
update to provide a working ptrace(2) interface.

 I have the kernel patches available, however they are require a further 
clean-up (mainly a functional split into self-contained parts) before they 
can be included upstream.  I intend to post them here in the near future, 
once that clean-up has been complete, however if interested in fiddling 
with GDB, then please enquire, I will be happy to supply them.

 The port update also includes newer binutils, patched for correct PLT 
support.  That was required to build working GDB and AWK binaries.  The 
latter is included too.

 And last but not least corrected glibc packages are included as well.  
Fixes include bits noticed in the course of making GDB packages, most 
importantly some thread_db changes to support an architecture with no 
separate floating-point registers and also a clone(3) syscall wrapper 
rewrite.  The original wrapper was non-functional, as revealed by 
gdbserver that uses this library call.

 Packages have been uploaded in the usual place:

ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/

SRPMS/       -- for the sources,
RPMS/vax/    -- for the VAX binaries,
RPMS/i386/   -- for the cross-tools,
RPMS/noarch/ -- for the cross-libraries.

 Enjoy!

  Maciej