[940] in SIPB_Linux_Development
NetBSD port of PCLU (done)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 12 12:05:01 1995
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 12:04:32 -0500
To: dcurtis@lcs.mit.edu
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Hi, I'm a past student of 6.170 and 6.035. You're mentioned in the
README for /mit/PCLU.
I've done a port of PCLU to NetBSD/i386. It involved a bunch of minor
changes to the Linux source release; the only difficult part was
getting the garbage collector to work (I had to set STACKTOP to an
empirically determined value; the computed value was too high). I've
successfully compiled and run the factorial program without problems.
I'd like to know;
(1) Are you interested in the patches for this? If you don't
maintain PCLU in LCS, can you forward this to them?
(2) I'd like to have PCLU installed for NetBSD and Linux in
the PCLU locker. The SIPB is willing to provide disk
space, maintenance effort, and support for this if you'll
make symlinks
/mit/PCLU/linuxbin -> /afs/sipb/project/linux/lockers/PCLU/bin
/mit/PCLU/linuxlib -> /afs/sipb/project/linux/lockers/PCLU/lib
/mit/PCLU/inbsdbin -> /afs/sipb/project/netbsd/lockers/PCLU/bin
/mit/PCLU/inbsdlib -> /afs/sipb/project/netbsd/lockers/PCLU/lib
(Those directories may not yet exist; I'll be creating
them during the coming week.)
User questions about Linux-specific and NetBSD-specific
problems can go to linux-help@mit.edu or
netbsd-help@mit.edu. We can't guarantee a high enough
level support to count these as supported platforms for
a class like 6.170, but it should be good enough for
students to do some work at home.
Assuming this all works out, I will be contacting the
6.170 TAs about arrangements for compiling problem set
libraries for Linux and NetBSD.
(3) It looks like I don't need to build PCLU specially for a
locker installation; I just need to put the files in the
right place and make sure that plink can find the library
directory. Is this correct?
Thank you for your time.
