[HECnet] HECnet bridge on tru64

[Mark Wickens]

I am also taking a solaris box im presuming thatthe bridge would compile Ok on that?


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-------- Original message --------
From: Jerome Ibanes <jibanes at gmail.com> 
Date: 10/15/2013 11:13 PM (GMT+00:00) 
To: hecnet at update.uu.se 
Subject: Re: [HECnet] HECnet bridge on tru64 


Netbsd's pkgsrc does support osf/1, although, many packages, such as
gcc, refuses to build. I was able to build the following from
pkgsrc-2013Q1, alas, nothing terribly useful.

autoconf-2.69nb1.tgz                 f2c-20100903.tgz
libgetopt-1.4.4.tgz                   p5-gettext-1.05nb8.tgz
tnftp-20070806.tgz
autoconf213-2.13nb2.tgz           fib-980203.tgz
libiconv-1.14nb2.tgz                 pax-20080110nb2.tgz
top-3.6.1nb1.tgz
automake-1.13.1.tgz                   flex-2.5.36nb1.tgz
libpcap-1.3.0nb2.tgz                 pcre-8.32.tgz
unzip-6.0nb1.tgz
automake14-1.4.6nb2.tgz           gettext-lib-0.18.2.1.tgz
libslang2-2.2.4nb2.tgz             perl-5.16.2nb4.tgz
vim-7.3.762.tgz
bash-4.2nb2.tgz                           gettext-tools-0.18.2.1.tgz
libtool-base-2.2.6bnb8.tgz     pgp-2.6.3ianb1.tgz
vim-share-7.3.762.tgz
bash-completion-1.0nb1.tgz     gmake-3.82nb5.tgz
lynx-2.8.7nb5.tgz                       pgp5-5.0inb1.tgz
wget-1.14nb2.tgz
bison-2.7.tgz                               gnupg-1.4.13nb2.tgz
m4-1.4.16nb3.tgz                         pkg-config-0.28.tgz
xorg-cf-files-1.0.4nb5.tgz
bzip2-1.0.6.tgz                           gtar-base-1.26nb2.tgz
makedepend-1.0.4.tgz                 pkg_install-info-4.5nb3.tgz
xproto-7.0.23nb2.tgz
compat_headers-0.2.tgz             gtexinfo-4.13anb1.tgz
mktemp-1.7.tgz                             readline-6.2.tgz                         xz-5.0.4.tgz
coreutils-8.13nb5.tgz               help2man-1.40.13.tgz
nbench-2.2.2.tgz                         rsync-3.0.9nb1.tgz
zip-3.0nb2.tgz
curl-7.29.0nb2.tgz                     imake-1.0.5.tgz
nbpatch-20100124.tgz                 screen-4.0.3nb5.tgz
zlib-1.2.7.tgz
digest-20121220.tgz                   kbproto-1.0.6.tgz
openssh-5.8.2nb8.tgz                 sudo-1.7.10p7.tgz
emacs22-nox11-22.3nb4.tgz       libffi-3.0.12.tgz
osabi-OSF1-5.1.tgz                     tcp_wrappers-7.6.4.tgz

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 Oct 2013, at 22:00, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> OK, so given that I have so little time at the moment I'm going to ask a
> question that I could answer if I had a chance to play.
>
> Does the hecnet bridge compile and run on tru64? I've got 5.1c installed on
> a machine I'm taking to DEC Legacy and I'd rather not take another linux
> machine if possible.
>
>
> I still need to work this out on one of my Tru64 machines so this is all
> loose theory so bear with me but   
>
> Tru64, being a UNIX has the environment required, so that's a start.
>
> You can bootstrap and use NetBSD pakgsrc on Tru64 I THINK. It lists OSF/1 as
> a supported environment, which I think is their way of saying they support
> it? I dunno if anyone ever tried it out?
>
> Given bootstrapped pkgsrc you then have all the OSS compiler tools required
> to compile the bridge binary
>
> ????
>
> Profit?
>
> I really ought to get it working properly on my PWS500au and try it for
> certainty.
>
> --
>
> Mark Benson
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