Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:40:35 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: RAM@novell.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a Solaris x86 port of CVSup?? Message-ID: <199704141840.LAA05365@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <s35193fe.074@novell.com> References: <s35193fe.074@novell.com>
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In article <s35193fe.074@novell.com>, Ram Madduluri <RAM@novell.com> wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has ported CVSup environment to Solaris x86. I
> would appreciate if someone has pointers for a quick port.
Some time ago there was a guy who ported it to a number of platforms,
and I believe that some version of Solaris (2.4, I think) was one
of them. Unfortunately, the DEC SRC web pages do not list Solaris
x86 as one of the supported platforms for Modula-3. So I am afraid
you'd first have to port Modula-3. This might or might not be
hard. If the Solaris x86 API isn't too different from Solaris-2.4,
then you could start with the 2.4 Modula-3 port and work from there.
The code generator uses gcc, so that shouldn't be a problem. On
the other hand, Modula-3 is _huge_, and it uses an unconventional
build system that can be daunting to say the least. Also, you'd
have to have Modula-3 running on some supported platform (FreeBSD
would be fine) in order to do the required cross-build to bootstrap
it to Solaris x86.
Assuming you got Modula-3 ported, I am pretty sure that the current
beta version of CVSup would build pretty easily and work. It's
available in source form from:
ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/BETA/cvsup-14.1.4.tar.gz
John
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