Re: FreeBSD 4.7 images?

Thanks for the update.

Robert

Alexander Petrossian writes:

> Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI @ :
>> My apologies, Alexander.
> noproblemo, Robert, just my bad moderatorial habits. this is not my personal forum, feel free ;)
>
>> I do want to say something in relation to Rotor and FreeBSD. The
>> original Share Source CLI documents/book mentioned it ran and was
>> tested on FreeBSD
>> 4.7. I mentioned here how I got it working on FreeBSD 4.8:
>> http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut/archive/2003/08/10/23403.aspx
>> and later tried on 5.1
>> http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut/archive/2003/10/27/33760.aspx
>> but has some problems and stopped at that point.
>> In May, the last post on this list was from Sebastian Marion
>> mentioning he got 14000 when he tried building it on FreeBSD 5.3.
>
> I thought Sebastian was no longer interested so mailed him directly.
> We discussed with that point,
> he said that he was able to comple SSCLI under FreeBSD 5.2.1
>
> some time ago I patched SSCLI for it to compile in this environment:
>
> [imp@host] ~>uname -a
> FreeBSD *** 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr 18 14:18:26 EEST 2005     paf@***:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/HOST  i386
> [imp@host] ~>gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
> [imp@host] ~>
>
> it took ~50 files to patch.
> it was mostly that well-known problem
>         "... depend on a template parameter"
> not not only that.
>
>> It is a very sad state of affairs when you are hard pressed to keep
>> looking for obsolete OSs to build Rotor on successfully.
>
> That's true.
> But, again, SSCLI is for academical use, so that's just another challenge to fix that.
> A task for well-trained student ;)
>
> I agree that that's not exactly kind for non-trained-yet one ;)
>
> Alexander Petrossian, Moscow, Russia
>
> P.S. Privatly we discussed couple of GC bugs I've met with Jan Kotas, he (indirectly) says that we have to wait untill November when
> Rotor Whidbey will roll out.
>
> P.P.S
> Let's keep our fingers crossed that this last date ;)
>
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