Re: Problem building swarm-2002-05-14

[W . Northcott]

Hi Alex

I am not sure I am volunteering to be a porter/tester for Solaris, but I 
do have an Ultra 10 with Solaris 9 on which you could have an account.

Bill Northcott

address@hidden wrote on 08/08/2002 06:52:12 PM:

> >>>>> "KC" == Killian Edward F Contr AFRL/IFOS 
> <address@hidden> writes:

> KC> I'm a system administrator trying to build and install swarm for
> KC> one of my users.  I'm not on the mailing lists so please email me
> KC> directly.  If you would like me to subscribe and then unsubscribe
> KC> when I have it installed I can do that.

> KC> Now, the problem.  I was having problems compiling on Solaris 2.6.
> KC> First I had to get and install all the additional packages (blt,
> KC> XPM lib, ffcall, etc).  Then I figured out that it's best to
> KC> compile wiht > gcc-3.0.  Then I found out that it's best to use >
> KC> emacs 20.0.  Now I get the following problem during the build:

> [...]

> Solaris is a bit of problem for us, bause none of us actually has
> access to Solaris machines on regular basis for us to check and/or
> build on Solaris.  The best I can suggest is look through the mailing
> list archives, there have been some recent attempts to build it (and
> at least one successfull one on Solaris 2.8).

> Right now we have no staff or resources to maintain Swarm, although we
> are looking for more funding sources.  Essentially, maintanance of
> Swarm is on a volunteer basis only at this time.  Also joining as a
> member, would also help us greatly (e-mail Paul Johnson at
> address@hidden for more details).

> We are looking for somebody to be our "Solaris" porter/tester, if
> you'd like to volunteer, we'd be more than happy to have you aboard!

> In terms of Linux: if you want to try the Swarm snapshots under Red
> Hat Linux, Paul Johnson has RPMs that work with 7.3 (and possibly
> 7.2), but 7.1 is getting a bit long in the tooth for Paul to continue
> support it (with the current snapshots at least):

> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.3/

> A.
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