From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 10 21:08:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA14137 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 21:08:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA14121 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 21:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from xmission.com [166.70.2.43] by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xrFdR-0000JX-00; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:08:34 -0700 Message-ID: <34B856CA.BEF6EA76@xmission.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:21:15 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: Jamie Bowden , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request References: <19980108161826.07668@lemis.com> <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net> <19980109090450.36060@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > Jamie Bowden wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > 2. I'm also the author of O'Reilly's "Porting UNIX Software". > > > > You wrote that? > > Yup. > > > I have been meaning to buy it anyway, now I have even more reason to > > do so. > > Thanks. I don't really have any reason to buy it; I humbly admit that I once wrote a security analysis package that ran on 13 different flavors of UNIX.* I did pick up the book and thumb through it once, and remember thinking "this guy really seems to know what he's talking about." This was before I met Greg electronically, through FreeBSD. My opinion has grown ever better. Thanks for your hard work in scribing "TCF," by the way. * In case you're wondering, it was Security Toolkit/UNIX, from Raxco. It is now known as "Enterprise Security Manager," from Axent Technologies, which was spun off from Raxco a few years ago. As of my last envolvement, it ran on: SunOS SPARC, SunOS 68K, Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, Digital UNIX Alpha, RISC Ultrix, VAX Ultrix, HP/UX HPPA, HP/UX 68K, AIX RS/6000, SVR3 68K, SVR3 88K, SVR4 88K, and Esix SVR4 x86. Whoops, that's 14, isn't it? Surprise! All 14 were compiled from the same set of sources and the same Makefile, and you just typed 'make' to build it on any given platform. We also had a 'super makefile' that would build every architecture by starting 'make world' on one machine of each architecture using rsh. A full build from source took about 20 minutes on the fastest machine, a DEC Alpha, and 14 hours on the slowest machine, a VAXstation 2000. It now runs on several more UNIX variants, as well as VMS, NetWare, and NT. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com