Swarm 2.0 Solaris 7 binaries available

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Swarm 2.0 binary packages installable via Solaris 7's `pkgadd' command
are now available at:

  ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/sparc-solaris-2.7

To install, untar the file of interest, and run (as root):

  # cd /tmp
  # gzip -dc a-file-below.tar.gz | tar xf -
  # pkgadd -d /tmp

The most significant file found here is SDGgcc-2.95.1.tar.gz. 
This package includes gcc 2.95 configured for use with GNU binutils
(this configuration is needed to build Objective C shared libraries),
GNU binutils 2.9.1 itself, and a copy of GNU make.  The Objective C
compiler is modified to provide type encoding support for the `long
double' type, and a fix to avoid the annoying "type and size of
dynamic symbol" warning.¹

Also provided:

  - A new version of the HDF5 library.  HDF 1.2 now supports the building of
    shared libraries (and the Solaris 7 binary package is built in this way).
    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/

  - R 0.65.0 equipped with HDF5 support
    http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R

  - Kaffe 1.0b4
    http://www.kaffe.org
   
  - A new build of zlib-1.1.3 configured as a shared library
    http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib

  - Swarm 2.0, configured with HDF5 and Java support (using the Kaffe 
    package above)
  
The remaining packages (Tcl/Tk 8.0, BLT 2.4, libpng-1.0.3, and Xpm)
are untouched since the 1.4.1 release.

¹ For those of you fanatical about not using binaries built with undisclosed
  modified sources, the patch is available at:

  ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/needed-software/diffs/objc.diff

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