From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 15 8:11:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from po9.andrew.cmu.edu (PO9.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA9D14E25 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu) Received: (from postman@localhost) by po9.andrew.cmu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.2) id LAA26449; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:11:04 -0500 (EST) Received: via switchmail; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:11:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix6.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:09:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix6.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:09:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Jun.27.1996.03.02.53.sun4.51.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix6.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4m.54 via MS.5.6.unix6.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4_51; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:09:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:09:37 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Valentino Crimi To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "William Woods" Subject: Re: Alpha and ports..... In-Reply-To: <199903151542.HAA06483@mail.cybcon.com> References: <199903151542.HAA06483@mail.cybcon.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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