[Simh] EXT :Re: OpenBSD on Simh VAX 3.8-1 - Segmentation fault

[Bob Eager]

As an aside, I'm the maintainer of the simh package on FreeBSD.

I've stuck at 3.9, again because of the ongoing development of 4.0. If
there is a stable version I can grab, I'll do a 4.x package.

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:56:52 -0600
Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo at gmail.com> wrote:

> A short answer to Dave's question. I am running Linux Mint, but not
> the very latest version. I imagine the most recent version does have
> 3.9 in it. Since 4.0 is still marked "beta" it is probably not
> included.
> 
> Further details: Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu which in turn is
> derived from Debian. If packages are upgraded at the head of the
> stream, it is at least supposed to "trickle down" to the dependent
> distributions. The differences from Debian to Ubuntu to Mint are
> largely related to user interfaces rather than to actual software
> packages, as I understand it. So if upgraded versions get into
> Debian, they will appear in subsequent releases of the descendents.
> 
> I confess I've grown lazy in my old age here. Mint issues LTS (long
> term support) versions that are supported for up to five years now.
> Since most of what I do is not bleeding edge, I've stopped rushing to
> upgrade the entire OS every time a new version comes out. I'm running
> 17.1 of Mint here, and I believe they are up to 19.x now.
> 
> Including concise "cookbook" style instructions is always useful *if*
> they can be counted on to work. That can be the rub. I fully
> understand that developers can't always test everything on every
> possible hardware and software platform.  Mark's succinct directions
> are great, but would be even better if a list of environments in
> which they have been tested were to be attached.
> 
> As a negative example, I recently tried someone's "concise"
> instructions for building an emulated environment to run/test Android
> apps on Linux. I know Android developers do this regularly, and often
> even do their development on Linux. However, these instructions were
> a disaster. They may have worked on some specific system, but they
> exploded here and I'm still picking out bits of debris that were left
> all over the file system.
> 
> --Gary
> 
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) <
> david.hittner at ngc.com> wrote:
> 
> > So two follow on action items, now that the problem seems to be
> > solved:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) How can we work with this Linux vendor to provide a baseline
> > SIMH 4.0 package instead of the older SIMH 3.8-1 package?
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) Should the instructions for downloading and building the latest
> > SIMH that Mark provided be included in the FAQ (under Linux hosts)?
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >