Re: Getting Mac Linux is not worth the trouble.

[Theodore C. Belding]

Why do you say that "getting Mac linux is not worth the trouble"?  Have you
tried it?  Swarm 1.0 works fine with MkLinux DR2, and several of us are
using it without any problems.  See my email in the swarm-support email
archive for details on how to compile Swarm for MkLinux.
-Ted

At 3:10 PM -0500 2/23/97, Ricardo Adrian Serrano-Ledee wrote:
>Aparently I missunderstood the information posted on the Swarm Web
>site.  There is a binary version of Swarm for Linux, however is for
>pentium PC linux!  Please see below.  The available binaries are for
>pentium PC linux, HP/UX, and for Solaris.
>
>
>glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>>
>> "jalopez" == "John A Lopez" <address@hidden> writes:
>> jalopez> glen,
>>
>> jalopez> Met you at the fest - nice to meet you finally. Is the Swarm
>> jalopez> + binaries for linux usable for Mklinux or should I go with
>> jalopez> just the source or what?  John
>>
>> John,
>> We don't have any binaries for the PowerPC or the motorola chips.
>> It might be worth mentioning to everybody the style I chose for
>> naming the binaries.  The format is:
>>
>>   swarm-[version#]-[CPU]-[OS].tar.gz
>>
>> If either of [CPU] or [OS] is not compatible with your machine/system,
>> then that binary probably won't work for you.  So, in the future (after
>> John or some kind soul packages up a MkLinux binary), we hope you'll
>> see things like:
>>
>>    swarm-1.0.0-ppc-mklinux.tar.gz
>>    swarm-1.0.0-mips-irix5.3.tar.gz
>>    swarm-1.0.0-alpha-decunix3.2.tar.gz
>>
>> on our ftp site.  Of course, this isn't necessarily fully specified.
>> For instance, I assume that linux 2.0.0 is compatible with 2.0.20.
>> I even expect that Swarm compiled on 1.2.13 is compatible with 2.0.20.
>> But, I don't know that.  When and if it becomes clear that OS versions
>> are incompatible with respect to Swarm, we'll use version numbers for
>> those as well.
>>
>> But, the short answer is that we don't have a ppc mklinux binary
>> yet.
>>
>> glen
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Ted Belding                      <mailto:address@hidden>
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
<http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/>