On Nov 19, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: […] >> My immediate interest is getting CDE on OS X and Solaris 11. AFAIK, >> both of those either have automake/autoconf from the vendor, or >> have it in a reasonably well-supported packaging of free software >> (e.g. MacPorts for OS X). So I would suppose porting to OS X >> (Solaris 11 supposedly more or less works, although I gather SPARC >> hasn’t been tried yet?) is if anything likelier with autotools than >> without. > > Probably not, but original CDE ran on sparc, so I don't see a huge > issue there. Mac on the otherhand -- I have no experience there.
FYI, I built Motif on Solaris 11.2 (current as of what’s available without a support contract, aside from adding a non-vendor fix for the bash vulnerability) easily enough. I was pleased to see it didn’t clobber any vendor files I already had installed (and AFAIK I had a fairly complete install to start with). I got a list of what it added by comparing a zfs snapshot before and after, which let me be sure it hadn’t clobbered anything (and gave me the option of rolling back if it had). I haven’t really figured out the packaging mechanism new to Solaris 11 though, only know the SVR4 packaging (which still works, but is not repository based and is not preferred on Solaris 11). So haven’t made a package of it yet; and have enough going on for a few days that I probably won’t get further for awhile. The Mac kernel is XNU - Mach + FreeBSD more or less; but the userspace, include files etc are not occasionally without surprises. automake, autoconf, and libtool don’t appear to be included, but can be added using the free MacPorts infrastructure (which is how IMO it would be nice to eventually have CDE packaged for Mac, as whatever additional build files and patches etc as that might require, and that could also offer its own binary package). The current (unbundled, but easily installable) X.org build for Macs AFAIK has no imake support, and while that also can be found in MacPorts, I don’t know where to start to find out if it will do me any good. Maybe I can look at the FreeBSD build instructions sometime and see whether anything can be done starting with them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
