> Jerry, > > On 7/31/06, Jerry K <sun at oryx.cc> wrote: >> I have certainly wondered the same. >> >> I am currently running Solaris 10 on Sparc with the Openwin packages >> installed >> from Solaris 8 with no problems. I don't know if something similar would >> be >> possible using binaries from Solaris 2.5.1 PPC? > > Solaris 2.5.1 PowerPC Edition was little endian. Polaris OTOH, aims > big endian environment. I am not aware of a method to combine big and > little endian executable code in the same process image. It also seems to > me that supporting monolith little endian process image on top of the > big endian kernel would be a pain in the neck, if at all possible. > > Bottom line - I wouldn't count on old Solaris PPC packages. I think one > still can find XView sources and build them on modern system. As for > OpenLook toolkit - I am not sure its source is available. >
Again, just to clarify, I was looking for the sources. Merely to compile it as a really small simple window system. I think that Ken Mays has a better suggestion ( or two ) to go with. Dennis Clarke
