In my Chromebook's Linux container's servers directory, each provider has its own subdirectory, inside of which each server has its own directory.
The individual server directories each have a file named login. The first line of each login file (output by head -n 1) is the IPv4 ssh login command and the last line of each login file (output by tail -n 1) is the IPv6 ssh login command.
As long as I am in the right directory, and using sh or bash, I almost always can log in by ssh to any server with the same two keystrokes: Ctrl+r (reverse search through previous commands) and then backtick (`).
As you know, the backticks tell sh and bash to run as a command the output of what is between the backticks.
Of course, as you know, ssh has it's own built-in shortcut procedure that can be set up in a configuration file.
The new pcc seems to bootstrap successfully on NetBSD-current. The Github pcc sources were compiled first using NetBSD's native gcc, and then compiled again using the gcc-built pcc as the compiler to get a pcc-compiled, bootstrapped pcc.
netbsd$ date
Sun Apr 5 16:33:42 UTC 2026
netbsd$ pwd
/home/tom/PortableCC-compiles-itself/bin
netbsd$ ls
hello.c p++ pcc pcpp
netbsd$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello from bootstrapped PCC!\n");
return 0;
}
netbsd$ ./pcc -o hello hello.c
netbsd$ ./hello
Hello from bootstrapped PCC!
netbsd$ ./pcc -v
Portable C Compiler 1.2.0.DEVEL 20231021 for x86_64-unknown-netbsd11.99
error: no input files
netbsd$
Thanks to Anders Magnusson, the recent main pcc developer! Thanks to Linveo for sponsoring my NetBSD-current VPS!
My sponsored Linveo VPS continues to compile NetBSD-current every few days. No issues, certainly no problems!
I like Linveo so much that I actually bought and continue to pay for two additional VPSes from them, one for FreeBSD-current and another for OpenBSD-current.
This thread's offer of a free share of this thread's sponsored NetBSD-current VPS remains open. Please check the OP for details!
Happy Sunday! Happy Fathers Day to fellow fathers!
For the last year, going on two now, NetBSD-current updates and recompiles, almost always flawlessly, sometimes while I am sleeping. The setup here is mostly generic and unmodified, just to track what's going on in the neighborhood, and to have the sources handy and available.
This brings back memories of running and rebuilding NetBSD-current -- was it thirty years ago?
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Wow, that
got me confused for a bit. Had never thought you could use it in that context.
Hi @cmeerw!
In my Chromebook's Linux container's servers directory, each provider has its own subdirectory, inside of which each server has its own directory.
The individual server directories each have a file named login. The first line of each login file (output by head -n 1) is the IPv4 ssh login command and the last line of each login file (output by tail -n 1) is the IPv6 ssh login command.
As long as I am in the right directory, and using sh or bash, I almost always can log in by ssh to any server with the same two keystrokes: Ctrl+r (reverse search through previous commands) and then backtick (`).
As you know, the backticks tell sh and bash to run as a command the output of what is between the backticks.
Of course, as you know, ssh has it's own built-in shortcut procedure that can be set up in a configuration file.
Thanks!
Tom
Hopefully cmeerw's fix gets into NetBSD 11 so I could finally see a login prompt on my Linveo Intel VM
It is working amazingly on FreeBSD though and the uptime has been impeccable.
There seems to be a new version of the venerable pcc compiler available on Github at https://github.com/PortableCC.
The new pcc seems to bootstrap successfully on NetBSD-current. The Github pcc sources were compiled first using NetBSD's native gcc, and then compiled again using the gcc-built pcc as the compiler to get a pcc-compiled, bootstrapped pcc.
Thanks to Anders Magnusson, the recent main pcc developer!
Thanks to Linveo for sponsoring my NetBSD-current VPS! 
My sponsored Linveo VPS continues to compile NetBSD-current every few days. No issues, certainly no problems!
I like Linveo so much that I actually bought and continue to pay for two additional VPSes from them, one for FreeBSD-current and another for OpenBSD-current.
This thread's offer of a free share of this thread's sponsored NetBSD-current VPS remains open. Please check the OP for details!
Looks like my sponsored Linveo NetBSD-current VPS has the wapbl(4) journal that @cmeerw mentioned in the BSD thread:
It's been longer than usual since I updated and recompiled.
A little more up to date now. . . .
Happy Sunday! Happy Fathers Day to fellow fathers!
For the last year, going on two now, NetBSD-current updates and recompiles, almost always flawlessly, sometimes while I am sleeping. The setup here is mostly generic and unmodified, just to track what's going on in the neighborhood, and to have the sources handy and available.
This brings back memories of running and rebuilding NetBSD-current -- was it thirty years ago?
Thanks to Linveo for sponsoring the build VPS.
If someone wants to share this fine, free VPS . . . teach me something . . . please ask.