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From: Darrell Kindred <dkindred@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Binary distributions (was Re: 19.15b104 ok on Linux & AIX)
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I'd be willing to build a kit for one or, in a pinch, two of
the following:

    alpha-dec-osf3.2
    hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.03
    mips-sgi-irix5.3
    mips-dec-ultrix4.3
    powerpc-ibm-aix3.2.5
    sparc-sun-solaris2.5
    sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1

I can test out binary kits for any of the above too.  I hope
beta testers will make an effort to try binary kits produced
by others in a serious way quickly--in the past there have
been problems with binary kits that went unnoticed and
unfixed for a long time, probably because the people best
able to diagnose and report such problems are least likely
to use binary distributions.

- Darrell

Andrew J Cosgriff writes:
 > "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
 > 
 > wp> for all the platforms I have (Linux, IRIX 6.x, HP/UX 9.x, AIX,
 > wp> Solaris/Sparc, Solaris/x86, BSDI 2.1, BSDI 3.0, SCO OpenServer,
 > wp> SCO UnixWare, FreeBSD, and SunOS).
 > 
 > sb> Thanks William, from the deafening silence in response to the call
 > sb> for kit builders, I'll probably need you to build many of those.
 > sb> Perhaps binary kits are something we should not do in the future.
 > 
 > sb> I've gotten volunteers for Solaris 2.5, Intel Linux, all DEC (next
 > sb> month), BSDI 2.0, 2.1 and AIX 3.2.5.
 > 
 > I can do an IRIX 5.3 build if need be (hopefully the Indy i've got in
 > mind won't be 6.2'ified just yet, like its sibling was a few days
 > ago), although my knowledge of IRIX and SGI in general is lacking
 > compared to Linux/Digital Unix/Ultrix/Solaris, all of which seem to be
 > covered already.
 > 
 > Similarly, I could do IRIX 6.2 (if a 5.3 build isn't compatbile enough
 > for 6.2 as well).  But in both cases, i'd be more than happy to defer
 > to someone who's more at home in SGI-land than myself.

