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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-tuebingen.de!mailserv!zxmsd01 From: zxmsd01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Gunther Schadow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD: Porting of TeX? --- Porting of * ? Message-ID: <zxmsd01.711064921@mailserv> Date: 13 Jul 92 22:02:01 GMT Article-I.D.: mailserv.zxmsd01.711064921 Sender: news@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (News Operator) Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG Lines: 51 Hi all, has someone allready ported TeX et al. to 386bsd? If so could he/she FTP the binaries to agate.berkeley.edu? I ran into problems with web2c which are due to yacc as I feel. I'm going to compile GNU bison/flex now and will try again on TeX. In general: As I experienced, there are quite a lot of people trying to port software to 386bsd. But not every succes is made public at this forum. I think we all could save time, if we informed and let participate our 386bsd-collegues from our work of porting software. I think we all have still a lot of problems and hackings to do with 386bsd so that we don't really want to do some work twice. Although not secure and somewhat wasting of bandwidth, it seems appropriate to exchange binaries under this circumstances. Fortunately we do have some internet sites whose sys.admin's lend us their bandwidth for archiving 386bsd suff, patches and binaries. We should thankful make use of that advantage. Namely there are agate.berkeley.edu and (not widely known) nova.cc.purdue.edu and many more sites in different countries holding 386bsd subtrees. I want to encourage anybody to send patches and binaries to one of these FTPservers and inform both the sys.admin. and the public of what you have done and where you put it. Moreover I would try to compile a list of ported software if there was some interest in such a list, and if people would send the following form filled for any program/system he/she successfuly compiled. regards -Gunther --cut-here----cut-here----cut-here----cut-here----cut-here----cut-here-- PROGRAM NAME: <e.g. Ghostscript> VERSION/RELEASE: <e.g. 2.4.1> DESCRIPTION: <e.g. GNU PostScript driver> WHERE TO FIND ORIGINALS: <e.g. prep.ai.mit.edu for GNU stuff> WHERE TO FIND YOUR WORK: <e.g. agate berkeley.edu> PROVIDED AS: <full source, patches, binaries or any combination> WHERE TO ASK QUESTIONS: <your name and mail address> REQUIRES: <e.g. Ghostscript requires no screengraphics> COMMENTS <known bugs and problems particular to the 386BSD-port and whatever you think is important, although no replacement for a comprehensive readme-file!> END -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gunther Schadow, e-mail: Gunther@mailserv.ZDV.Uni-Tuebingen.DE Sudetenstrasse 25, Phone: (49) 7071/37527 7400 Tuebingen, Germany.__________Stop__________Horn Please!__________O.K. TATA