From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 29 10: 2:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9584414E52 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14069; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA10839; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:02:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001291802.KAA10839@vashon.polstra.com> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: *legal* osf/1 shared libs & Netscape available! In-Reply-To: <14480.50220.887518.411214@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <14480.50220.887518.411214@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <14480.50220.887518.411214@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Compaq has released their Tru64 shared libs for use with Netscape on > "alpha linux" (not to mention FreeBSD & NetBSD..): > http://www.compaq.com/partners/netscape/downloads/register_nav4_Linux.html This is an ignorant question I'm sure, but I have to ask. As I understand it we have an OSF/1 emulator that works on the Alpha. And now the OSF/1 shared libs are available. Do you think it might be feasible for me to set up an environment on my Alpha where I could install the OSF/1 version of the Modula-3 compiler and runtime, enabling me to build CVSup binaries for OSF/1? As part of this I would need a working OSF/1 GNU C compiler, assembler, and linker too. I suppose with some effort I could cross-bootstrap that from an Alpha/FreeBSD environment. What do you think? Have I finally lost all sanity? John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message