Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:09:37 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "William Woods" <wwoods@cybcon.com> Subject: Re: Alpha and ports..... Message-ID: <AqvH31u00Uw_0L1mE0@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199903151542.HAA06483@mail.cybcon.com> References: <199903151542.HAA06483@mail.cybcon.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Excerpts from mail: 15-Mar-99 Alpha and ports..... by "William Woods"@cybcon.c > The question I have is this....how are the ports on the alpha distro, > specifically, I am interested in Netscape, WP8. How well do these compile? > And maby StarOffice 4.0 also. You picked the exact ports which don't work on the alpha ;) The main problem is, of course, that none of them compile, they are all third party binaries (although there was a post about someone on this list compiling Netscape, is that progressing well?). Netscape has shown great interest in providing an alpha binary, I can't say anything for WP8 and StarOffice, but would speculate that if there begin to exist alpha-linux binaries we would want, that'd be a good direction to move it. As things stand I'll bet compaies which only natively support linux wouldn't support alpha-linux for the same reasons, too small a market. From my experience, just about anything that compiles either works natively, or can be made to work on the alpha unixies. A few things, such as Emacs, gdb, and sml/nj dig a little more 'into the guts' of executables and also need patches to work; patches for the first two exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AqvH31u00Uw_0L1mE0>