bug-gnulib
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4


From: Michael Haardt
Subject: Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:38:45 +0100
User-agent: Heirloom mailx 12.1 6/15/06

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gnulib would be the place to fix this, but right now, gnulib has pretty
> much abandoned SunOS 4 as a museum piece because no current developer
> has access to that old of a platform in order to actively contribute
> patches to keep it running.  If you want to turn the tide and post the
> patches in order to be that active maintainer, there's a chance that we
> would apply them, if they aren't too hard to maintain.

It does not take too many efforts really supporting SunOS.  As far
as access to SunOS 4, if you don't want to invest 10-20 bucks for a
sparcstation, you can run it on tme, an emulator for sun3, sun4 and
ultrasparc.  I just added a Linux ethernet driver to it that works like
a charm with NFS.  SunOS 4 for sun3 is freely available, so are the
boot ROMs.

I am afraid that being active maintainer asks for more time than I have,
but I can send patches for sure to fix things and at least make the
job easier for other old Sun users.  What's the right address to send
patches for the library?

Michael



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]