From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 13:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cs.heritage.edu (cs.heritage.edu [199.249.129.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C67B37B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:52:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barnhart@cs.heritage.edu) Received: from localhost (barnhart@localhost) by cs.heritage.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08028 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 14:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barnhart@cs.heritage.edu) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard \"Doc\" Barnhart" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New vs. old Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm setting up 8 machines to run FreeBSD and pvm (Parallel Virtual Machine, http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html). Apparently, the libraries changed somewhere between FreeBSD 3.4 and 4.3, and pvm will no longer compile. Now I understand that this really isn't your problem, but I have several questions: 1. Which version of 3.4 (RELEASE or STABLE) is actually what I "should" be using? 2. Will 3.4 be available in the future, via ftp or CD-ROM? Perhaps I should order a CD-ROM right now, "just in case", if it's still available. 3. Has anyone else reported a problem, and is there a BSD patch? (I shall also try to contact someone involved with pvm to see if there is an update.) The problem is something really arcane with a bitwise comparison; I can investigate further if you'd like. FreeBSD is probably my favorite OS; it is close enough to "standard" UNIX that I can generally find answers in books. In fact, most of our campus Web pages are running on a BSD box, cs.heritage.edu. Thanks. Richard "Doc" Barnhart Computer Science Heritage College 3240 Fort Road Toppenish, WA 98948 It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message