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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 kernel build anomalies
Date: 18 Jan 1994 00:00:02 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2hf8q2$f54@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <1994Jan17.211602.25255@mprgate.mpr.ca>
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In article <1994Jan17.211602.25255@mprgate.mpr.ca>,
Dennis Rosenauer <rosenaue@mpr.ca> wrote:
>I have just gotten back to working on NetBSD 0.9 and attempted to
>re-build the kernel.  The kernel builds but there are a farily large
>number of warnings from the compiler, mostly about inconsistent type
>declarations.
>
>I am running the "stock" NetBSD 0.9 release.  I have not attempted to
>go to the "current" level.  The hardware is a vanilla 386DX box which
>did run 386BSD 0.1 with the various pachkits just fine.
>
>Is this a common problem with NetBSD?  Will moving to the current
>mods to NetBSD fix this?  How stable is the kernel inspite of the
>warning messages?

	i've been gettingmany of those warnings ever since i started
	building netbsd kernels in about september.

	i think the number decreases radically under -current,
	but stability of the 0.9 kernel in terms of that
	stuff is fine [there are other problems, but that's not it :-)]



						marc 'em.
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