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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2986 comp.os.linux.misc:20835 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.onramp.net!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!a2i!truffula!cls From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <mrg.774688509@dynamo> <311a16$eog@nntp2.stanford.edu> <jconklinCtJwMH.CKB@netcom.com> Organization: Me and my cat. Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 02:07:55 GMT Message-ID: <1994Jul27.020755.23089@truffula.sj.ca.us> Lines: 21 I'm usually too busy *using* my Linux box to upgrade it. Hung back from this exchange for a while, but I've got an anecdotal data point. I fetched pgp 2.6 sources from MIT. Fooled with them at work for an hour or so on SunOS 4.1.2 and 4.1.3, couldn't get past a bazillion compile errors. (Yes I installed "unprotoize" per instructions, piece o cake.) A friend with compiler expertise fooled with pgp 2.6 on Solaris 2 with the native cc and whatever GCC his workplace has, no workee. My year-old gcc-2.4.5/libc-4.4.1 on Linux built pgp 2.6 without complaint. Just had to fix two bad pathnames in the makefile. (Now I have to splice it into mailx and Pnews, low priority.) I asked the fellow identified in PGP's setup.doc what was with SunOS. Oh, we just built it on POSIX. For non-standard OSes you're on your own; we haven't received patches for SunOS from anyone yet. Cameron