From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To: art@blahonga.org (Artur Grabowski)
Cc: goony@OpenBEER.it, misc@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:43:54 +1100 (Australia/ACT)
Subject: Re: stop in swap...
Message-Id: <200203261343.AAA29377@caligula.anu.edu.au>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1]

In some mail from Artur Grabowski, sie said:
> 
> goony@OpenBEER.it writes:
> 
> > Hi, 
> > I am installing "stephanie-3.0" on my OpenBSD3.0+ipf on i386
> > with GENERIC kernel...
> > 
> > but after "make depend":
> > 
> > /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/FREEDOM/../../../../arch/i386/i386/swapge
> > neric.c
> > 
> > and stop here from about 30 min....
> > 
> > any idea?
>
> Yes, don't mail misc@ because that's not our problem. You are trying to
> build
> a non-OpenBSD kernel, with a custom kernel config after applying patches
> that have been repeatedly known to break things.

So far as I'm aware, the IPFilter patches are not known to break anything
and if you have news that they do then I'd welcome that.

> Let me guess, you're doing
> this on unsupported hardware with broken memory.

Now that could be a real issue for this user and in which case, the above
"crap" was completely uncalled for.

My advice to the person having problems: if you continue to have problems
and continue to get picked on (and in general, treated rudely) by core
members of the OpenBSD team, such as Art here, use FreeBSD or NetBSD and
avoid having to deal with these people.

Darren