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From: wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de (Olaf Wagner)
Subject: Modula 3 for FreeBSD
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 23:42:30 GMT
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Just for those interested: a short status report of the SRC M3 port
to FreeBSD:

On FreeBSD 1.1.5 everythings seems to be stable and running,
including threads and incremental and generational garbage
collection. I even managed to get shared libraries working,
but this seems not fit to be recommended for everyone as it is.
The main problem with shared libraries is that the tools
(as, ld, ar, ranlib) integrated in FreeBSD are not the
latest versions and don't cooperate as smoothly as expected
with the newer versions on which M3 3.3 is based.

I had planned to wait for the release of FreeBSD 2.0 in order
to test everything on the new system and then put some binaries
on a ftp site, since some people offered me this opportunity.
This weekend at last I managed to install 2.0 release, but - alas! -
there are quite a lot of differences to 1.1.5, and I haven't been
able even to bootstrap the compiler to the new system yet.

So it seems it will take another couple of weeks until there is
anything working. Since I don't think this will be within this year,
as I can only spent some hours at the weekend and am somewhat occupied
with moving to a new flat, I thought it worth asking if somebody
would be interested in a M3 distribution for FreeBSD 1.1.5
(that will not run on 2.0!).

So if I get, let's say, more than 10 replies asking for a binary
distribution, I will do one. If you are interested, just send me a short
mail to wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de or olaf@logware.de.

If not, everyone will have to wait for M3 3.4 for a FreeBSD 1.1.5
version.

Thanks to all those who offered their help (and space on ftp servers :-).
I really appreciated that (even if I was too lazy to reply to everybody).

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