On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:32:26PM -0400, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have not installed it in a while, but they
> used to ship quite a bit of GNU software with the unsupported CD. Some
> things such as FLEX and AWK are shipped with the base system. I also seem
> to remember that they needed gcc for some od the test suites.
I personally prefer to download the sources myself, but there is a
bunch of software on an "OSIS" CD (Open Source Internet Solutions, I
believe). It has tested open source software on it that should work
on Tru64. A few of us penguins here try to use a lot of OSS. A lot of
it works as shipped. When it doesn't, we normally wind up creating a
patch to get it to work on Tru64, and then spend an eternity trying to
get some maintainers to accept our patches (ORBit anyone?).
Yes, things like awk come shipped, but I believe a lot of
utilities like awk are in-house versions, though I do have a man page
for gawk (looks like I didn't install it, though). As far as gcc
goes, I had it compiled once, but when I upgraded my system and tried
again, it refused to compile. Most things compile with the DEC C
compiler, which produces *much* better executables anyways. Compiling
with DEC C also serves to point out all the "additional features"
(read: non-standard extensions) gcc supports.
Yes, we are running Gnome on Tru64 :-)
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