Re: [Chicken-users] Solaris 10 / SPARC - PsTK and manyargs

[Joe Python]

P.S. As a Solaris/SPARC user, I feel increasingly left out of the main stream of computing. Oracle is continuing the move away from technical computing to the data centre which Sun began. From you point of view, do you see fewer Solaris users?

You are not alone!

Lot of libraries(both C & Chicken) which we take for granted in the GNU/Linux world are simply not available in Solaris.

Example would be the pty egg which doesnt compile in Solaris because of a GNU lib dependency.

The Oracle's attitude of making Solaris be more of a Enterprise JAVA platform than anything else is not helping either.

Linux users have been spoiled by apt-get and friends. They don't have these issues.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Claude Marinier <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Jim Ursetto wrote:

On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Claude Marinier wrote:

Installed the PsTk egg with chicken-install but the simple hello world program fails with this error message.

Hi Claude.

Would you mind trying the attached patch?

I asked chicken-install to save the temporary files and moved them to /usr/local/src. Applied the patch; had fun with carriage returns. Built with

   chicken-install -l /usr/local/src -t local pstk

Excellent! the hello and C° converter example programs work both interpreted and compiled.

Thank you.

P.S. As a Solaris/SPARC user, I feel increasingly left out of the main stream of computing. Oracle is continuing the move away from technical computing to the data centre which Sun began. From you point of view, do you see fewer Solaris users?

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Claude Marinier
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