Long time ago. It was probably Slackware 9. And as Mark says, the makefile needed a lot of tweaking and I'm not real proficient at C stuff so it took me a lot of fumbling around. The simh version was 3.8 or perhaps even earlier. Slackware didn't have much in the way of precompiled packages at the time.
When I moved from Slackware to Debian things got a whole lot easier for the most part. When I was still working I had some forced experience with RedHat and (eeeww) UnixWare, but I find Debian much more straightforward and reliable. I use the Mint variant because I like the desktop and user interfaces. --Gary > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > >> Hello! > >> Gary which release of Slackware Linux was this? I've found that SIMH > >> properly builds on all releases from 7.2 (Which was only released as a > Snap > >> Shot Disk from the time of the first shows) all the way the 14.1. > >> I only needed to figure out how to update the LibCap library so that > >> networking would work properly once that arrived not too long ago. As an > >> aside I moved away from trying to build it here on this laptop running > 14.2 > >> 64bit, because networking requires a fixed connection, not WiFi. > > > > His issues might not have much to do with Slackware, but more to do > > with the version of simh. > > > > The github simh code (4.x) has built easily on most systems for a very > long > > time. > > > > Simh 3.9 was reasonable as well but not as robust as the current code. > > > > Simh 3.8-x might have needed local customizations relating to the > > local system environment. The folks putting together the debian and > > other simh packages certainly messed with the makefile. > > > > - Mark > > >
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