Re: Getting Mac Linux is not worth the trouble.

[Theodore C. Belding]

Hi Glen-
I think it's more important to get a gcc binary or RPM for MkLinux that is
able to compile Obj C -- the gcc that comes with MkLinux DR2 can't.  You
have to apply 2 patches, one from the MkLinux DR2 and one from the recent
Gnustep snapshot.  Compared to installing gcc, installing Swarm is trivial.
My porting notes describe how to install both gcc (with Obj C) and Swarm,
and that works fine.  But installing a Swarm binary alone wouldn't do much
good, since you couldn't compile any apps.  For the time being, people
should probably just follow my porting notes, unless someone has time to
upload an RPM for the patched gcc.

It was great hanging out with all of you in Santa Fe!
-Ted

At 7:14 PM -0700 2/23/97, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>Ricardo Adrian Serrano-Ledee writes:
> > 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.
>
>If anybody's interested, we'd be happy to receive a ppc-mklinux
>binary of Swarm.  From the 1.0.0 release, you should be able to
>make a binary by doing a "make distrib".  If you've customized
>yours with a SETUP inside the Makefile.conf, then it would
>be "make distrib SETUP=booga", where booga is whatever you named
>your setup (e.g. mine is "glen").  This should create a compiled
>version of Swarm in the /tmp directory along with two tarballs
>called swarmbin.tar.gz and swarmsrc.tar.gz.  All you would need
>to do is put the swarmbin.tar.gz somewhere where I can get at
>it and send me an e-mail message.  (Or upload it into
>ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/users-contrib/incoming.)
>
>We'd appreciate this very much.
>
>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/>