[5092] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Idraw broken for RISC/6000s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 3 18:52:40 1995
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 18:52:25 -0500
To: hartmans@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9501031728.AA16044@tertius.mit.edu> (message from Sam Hartman on Tue, 03 Jan 1995 12:28:26 EST)
The last time we looked seriously at idraw Sal went and got the latest
sources and tried building from scratch. As I recall they could not
have compiled on any system I've ever heard of except possibly the old
Symbolics Lisp machine C compiler (ask Mark Eichin); there were things
like missing semicolons and important include statements missing from
source code. I suspect that the latest distribution was prepared by
an experimental AI based loosely on `eliza', `yow', `B1FF',
`travesty', and `dissociated-press in emacs'. The current binary was
produced by John Carr, for whom RS/6000's *will* compile meaningless
code such as this (..and RT's will write the meaningless code and then
compile it, if John asks them to).
It's prett evident that the group punted IV completely for Fresco;
I've been meaning to look at that and see if there's a good idraw
clone in it. In the meantime, I've been suggesting xfig. If someone
knows of something better (or just `as good', or `almost as good', or
even `good enough to be useful'), let us know...
chad
