[1295] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Followup status of Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Mar 19 12:58:52 1996
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 18 Mar 96 21:04:20 -0500.
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 12:57:48 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Here is the current status:
quota and top have not been ported to Linux... Quota looks like it
needs some RPC functions that Linux does not provide. Linux already
has top, so I see no reason to port it.
etags and miniperl fail to build. etags gives multiple defines, and
miniperl is just plain confused, looking for symbols like yyerror and
other fun stuff. Since emacs and perl are already available for
Linux, I don't see any reason to put much time into this port, either.
The final problem that I have is olc/browser/motif, which is looking
for libraries that just don't exist. I'm not sure how to deal with
that. Also, some symlinks needed to be made for Motif and Wcl
libaries, and some symlinks needed to be modified. This was done on
speed-queen, and I'll make sure packages pick it up.
We should decide what we want to do about quota, top, emacs, perl,
etc. Programs that already exist for Linux or just wont build. We
should also decide where the "canonical" location of libraries is
going to be. For example, you cannot build the Linux-Athena source
tree without first having installed some header files and libraries!
Anyways, I'm not, yet, ready to install the build onto Speed-queen and
rebuild, but I'm fairly close.
-derek
