Subj : Linux books / porting across unices
To   : William Mcbrine
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Tue Oct 31 2000 02:20 pm

 Hello !

31 Oct 00 05:39, William McBrine wrote to Lawrence Garvin:

 WM> books and software are timed to be released close together. Linux
 WM> development takes place largely in the open, and is in a constant
 WM> state of flux; tracking stuff prior to release is mostly impossible.

and hard enough after release :-)

Back to something more generic unix: does anybody know if there is anywhere a 
genius who had the brilliant idea to document the pitfalls when porting TO 
Solaris (SunOS 5.6) ?

I am fighting with a port from a Linux RedHat 6.2 - it's actually a RedHat 5.2 
which I first ported to 6.2, hoping that the clean code would compile easier on 
Solaris, but there are a couple of libraries which make the compiler choke. I'm 
using gcc on the Solaris as well, 2.8.1. The machine is not ours, and I am not 
allowed to install anything but the company's software (ie no chance to get 
another gcc, I already had to beg on my knee to recompile a tcsh and a vim to 
have at least some decent tools).

Some of the things I found were really dumb, but can make you waste quite some 
time :-<, so any help is appreciated. And if the same exists for HP unix, I'm a 
taker as well. that's the next port down the pipeline.

 Francois Thunus

(A)bort, (R)etry, (S)ell it

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