Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:42:59 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [ted@urbanite.com: DCE porting.....] Message-ID: <19990309164259.I1249@orcrist.mediacity.com>
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Note the fourth paragraph of the following message. I am not a kernel hacker by any means, and I don't know if Ted's information is current. I do know that threads support has been a problem for many different FreeBSD developers. As well as possibly addressing the message below, can someone provide a short status report on the threads support in -STABLE? TIA. Greg ----- Forwarded message from "Ted W. Larson" <ted@urbanite.com> ----- Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990309133925.00bdddc4@giraffe.urbanite.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:39:25 -0800 To: linux-dce-list@bu.edu From: "Ted W. Larson" <ted@urbanite.com> Subject: DCE porting..... Sender: owner-linux-dce-list@bu.edu For a long time, I have been dreaming of an open source initiative for DCE. Let's face it....DCE is good technology, but not widely used because it isn't out there for free on all the platforms people want to develop applications on. When I saw the Linux port of Free DCE-RPC is was really excited. It is clear that the Free-DCE kit which was released into the public domain, was a porting nightmare to wade through, ..hehe...unless you were planning on building on AIX. Using a mixture of the original kit, and the Linux DCE kit, I have built running ports which work on both Solaris 2.6 for Sparc, and Solaris-X86 2.6 for Intel. There were some really tricky little porting bugs to get it going, but they both seem to work quite well now. I have been fiddling with an HP/UX build, but it seems unnecessary, because DCE-RPC comes bundled with the HP/UX core OS for free already. Also, I am very interested in porting to FreeBSD as well. The threads package is the big problem on FreeBSD. There seem to be seveal initiatives to get Linux-threads working on FreeBSD, which it seems would solve the problem. But, no easy solution to this right away. The threads package on FreeBSD 2.x is really ancient and doesn't support important things like pthread_cancel() ..ugh. Regardless, I have had them both working for a couple of weeks now, but haven't had a chance to bundle up the two ports, to release back to the public through a web page or something like that. Also, I would like to bundle up the binaries into a Solaris package so that people could just install it using pkgadd. I also still need to add comments to certain sections I rewrote in the threads-wrappers, so one can understand the Solaris platform differences from Linux. What I would REALLY like to do is take the Linux DCE kit as a starting point, and write an autoconf script to make it automatically recognize, and build for Linux, Solaris-X86, or Solaris-Sparc. Any help on this effort would be GREATLY appreciated. Not to cloud the water or anything, but I think if there were a stable Free-DCE kit, freely available to the world to use on most platforms, it would be compelling for lots of people to use it. ....heh...including myself...:-) Thanks, - Ted Larson ted@urbanite.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Gregory S. Sutter I got a Pentium II for my girlfriend. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com Good trade, eh? http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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