Path: sdcc12!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!rutgers!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!Teknowledge.COM!unix!updike!ric From: ric@updike.sri.com (Richard Steinberger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Subject: Solaris SW List. Monthly Post Message-ID: <41893@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 4 Jan 93 16:16:15 GMT Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Organization: sri Lines: 244 Originator: ric@updike NOTICE: I haven't replaced references to Solaris 2.0 with 2.1. It is probably safe to assume that anything that compiles/runs under 2.0 will do so under 2.1. I expect to change references from 2.0 to 2.1 shortly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris SW list. Maintained by ric@updike.sri.com. Ric Steinberger. Last updated: 12/01/92 Solaris 2.x compatibility information. Here is an attempt to provide some information about SW that may run under SUN's Solaris 2.x OS. For now (9/92), feel free to send additional information regarding other tools that you would like to see included. If possible, include details as to whether that product runs under 2.x [include x]. This list is now available via anonymous FTP from updike.sri.com. Please send suggestions to: ric@updike.sri.com. Use archie or other database to find out where these tools reside. Most of the GNU programs are on prep.ai.mit.edu. Many X11 programs are on export.lcs.mit.edu. pit-manager.mit.edu is a source for many other programs. So is ftp.uu.net. I will only list a site if a "customized" 2.x-compatible version or patches exist there. [I would prefer not to get in the business of listing distribution sites, as they tend to be very voluable entities.] Note: Unless otherwise indicated, "builds" means compiles using SUN-supplied compilers. IMPORTANT: If you have built a tool/utility listed here and you needed to apply one or more patches, PLEASE contact the code's author so that he/she may examine you efforts and incorporate them into the next release. This will help everyone. "HELP SAVE THE WORLD." - Larry Wall. CAVEAT: The listing of a program/product below does NOT mean that I have personally compiled or tested it. The information in this list is supplied to me by users like yourself. I will attempt to keep this list accurate and reasonably up to date, but I depend on YOU to help me do this. If you see something that is incomplete or inaccurate, please try to obtain correct information and then contact me. Status Codes: 1 Current distribution builds under Solaris 2.0 2 Current distribution builds with patches. [See comments] [Most people who claimed that they we able to get XXX to build with only a "few" patches have generally been optimistic about others ability to do the same. However this is not necessarily the case.] 3 Current distribution doesn't build yet. 4 Partial build. [See comments] 5 Cygnus distribution includes this. See vendor/cygnus dir on ftp.uu.net. 6 Binary available. Binaries have been posted to some sites known by archie and other databases. It is clearly more desirable to have the source build properly, especially for tools that depend on significant selection of options prior to a build. 7 Compiles under 4.x compatibility mode. 8 Current distribution builds under Solaris 2.0 using gcc. Patch distributors: P1 davy@ecn.purdue.edu Comment Codes: Pn Patches available. See patch distributors. 1 Use gcc (cygnus gcc from ftp.uu.net) 2 Solaris 2.1 Product Version Status Comment amd (berkeley) archie 2 P1. Minor BSD/SVRV problems bash 1.12 1,6 1 bison byacc 5 cnews/rnews contool cvs 1.3 1 diff pgms 2.0 1 dig 2.0 2 Minor BSD/SYSV problems dvips 5.47 8 Define SYSV in makefile eispack elm 2.4P3 1 emacs 18.59 6,8 epoch 4.2 1,8 fileutils 3.3 1 1 flex 5 ftptool gawk gcc 2.2.2 5,6 gcc 2.3.2 1 2 gdb 4.6 5 ghostscript 2.5.2 1,8 ghostview 1.4 1,8 gopher gprof 5 grep gtar 1 Use Sun ANSI C w/ -Xc -lsocket INN jove 4.14.7 2 P1 kermit 3 Wait for Solaris 2.1 lapack less 177 8 linpack log_tcp make 3.62.16+ 1 Metafont 2.7 8 MH 6.7.2 2 P1 MicroEmacs 3.11a 8 Mtools nihcl nn NNTP patch 2.0.12.u8 5,8 perl 4.0p35 1 Don't use optimizer on util.c, tutil.c pine ping (post BSD) 1 POP PPP rc 1.4 1 rcs 1 rn shellutils 1.7 1 1 slip tar 1.10 1 1 tcl tcpdump tcsh 6 TeX/LaTeX 3.14 8 textutils 1.3 1 1 tgrind top traceroute WAIS X11R4 X11R5 p1 17 2,4 clients & libs only. No server. P1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Various contributed X11 clients [R4.18 and/or R5.patch_level] pbmplus xarchie xdvi patch15 2 needs bzero and bcopy .o files. xfig 2.1.4 2 Minor BSD/SYSV problems xli xlock Incl with 2.x OW xntp xperfmon xpipeman X11R5 contrib 2,7 xpostit 3.1 2 xrn 6.17 2 xtetris X11R5 contrib 2 Minor stuff xtroff X11R5 contrib 1 xv 2.21 2,7,8 xview 3.0.1 xvnews 2.2 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SW from SUN that runs under Solaris 2.0: [Note: It will be *impossible* to make this a complete list. I will try to include the most "popular" software. ] cc Y CC (c++) Y Developers Guide Y fortran Y NewsPrint Online: Backup 2.0 Y ShowMe 1.0 Y Sunlink FDDI Y Sunlink X25 Y SunNet Manager Y SUN PC Y ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The list of "Other Commercial" is definitely going to be incomplete. I will try to include the more popular 3rd party software products. If a "?" appears, it means I have no information as to whether this product runs under Solaris 2.x. Feel free to contact the vendor and relay any information back to me. Other Commercial: Runs under Solaris 2.x (Y/N/?) Adobe Transcript 3.1 Need to build from source AFS Alsys Ada Asterix Aviator BRS-Search Y Codeview/Objectview Disspla Empress FrameMaker 3.1.2 Avail CY Q1 93 for Solaris 2.1 FourGen accounting Y IDE (Software thru Pictures) Y ie (X11 text editor) Y IMSL Informix Y (SE and RDS) Ingres Y Interleaf 5 Island WPD Y Island Presents Y lucid 19.3.30 Y Maple Mathematica Matlab Motif Oracle Y ParcPlace Smalltalk PV-WAVE Y QMS/Imagen printer SW RSX Sybase Teamwork Topic Tuxedo UIM/X WDSF Word Perfect N TMI Parallel Driver Xmath ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final notes: Cygnus offers commercial support for much of the GNU software. Their phone number is: 415 903 1400. [I am not a Cygnus employee.] .