Re: WO451 on Jaguar/Panther/Tiger [was: Re: Side effect of OSX on Intel announcement]

On 10 Jun 2005, at 14:28, Giulio Cesare Solaroli wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> here are some detailed instructions on how to run WebObjects 4.5.1
> (objective-C) at least on Jaguar.
> I didn't write them (I have forgotten the original author).
>
> All our applications works fine, but we don't use neither WOTaskd nor
> WOMonitor, so I don't know if these suggestions could be of any help
> to you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Giulio Cesare Solaroli
>
> ....

Hmmm.  Picking interesting words and putting them into Google doesn't 
turn up any interesting results; whoever wrote them didn't post them to 
a public mailing list.  I read the WO-related Omni lists, and I never 
saw the original post.  Especially good stuff tends to end up in how-to 
pages, and Google didn't see the original post on any of those, either. 
  Searching webobjects-dev list at lists.apple.com turns up no hits 
either.

Whoever wrote those instructions knew what he was doing.  Renaming the 
original binary and having a shell script with the old name that 
invokes the renamed binary after frigging with its environment is a 
trick I remember Omni using to implement embedded frameworks on 
OPENSTEP in 1999.  Updating precomps, picking an older gcc... as an 
observation, if (re)installing developer tools on Panther or Jaguar, 
make you sure you review the packages to make sure you include gcc 
2.9.5.

I've reviewed the instructions but not tried them.  From what I've 
read, I expect them to work, but they are for getting the developer 
tools going.  What I don't see, and I'll know it when I see it, is 
stuff to get wotaskd and Monitor going, and these are essential for 
deployment but are not really needed for development.

-- Patrick