Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:46:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Steven Jorgensen <steve@casper.haunt.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: khoros Message-ID: <199605211646.KAA21713@casper.haunt.com>
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Lars Jonas Olsson (jonas@mcs.com) wrote: : I did the first FreeBSD support for Khoros 2 (some beta, porting : release). So Khoros 2 should have some knowledge about FreeBSD. I : think there is a person at Khoros Consortium that also run FreeBSD. He : also talked about doing a real port. I have not used Khoros in ~2 : years. Well, I actually work at Khoral Research (which develops Khoros), and have been helping maintaining the FreeBSD support in my spare time. (Several of us are using FreeBSD at home here.) Anyway, while I haven't done a FreeBSD port directory thing yet, people should have no trouble getting it to compile. Just follow the instructions in our installation guide to install it. It should compile without any modifications. The only things to pay attention to are the manual.cf settings in $BOOTSTRAP/repos/config/doc_config to make sure the EqnCmd, RoffMacro, and SoelimCmd don't have the g in front of them. : You can only get the source from Khoros consortium members' ftp sites : and you are not allowed to redistribute. The package is large : (50-100M) The problem with doing a ports structure is that you have to assume all the configuration and placement of the Khoros source tree. Since it is so big, a blind assumption on placement may not work very well. : > "We abandonded Linux and FreeBSD for stability reasons because we : > think NetBSD is the only stable OS and so on and so on ..." : > And further he was asking for X11 binary compatibility of : > NetBSD to run Linux X11 binaries. Obviously he had in mind : > running a linux khoros binary under NetBSD Linux emu. : > : > I offered him my help and I'm waiting for an answer. : > Archie'ing for khoros gives me a few hits signalling linux ports : > available. Well, I don't know about running the linux binaries under NetBSD, since you can't get precompiled binaries anyway, it would probably be easier to port Khoros to NetBSD, than to compile linux binaries and fight with the NetBSD linux emulator. I doubt a port to NetBSD will be very difficult, since khoros has already been ported to FreeBSD. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@haunt.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6001 Indian School, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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