🚀 go-pugleaf

For those of you not working on DEC (or even if you are), there is good
stuff below for HP 300/400 and 700 users, AIX people, VAX and MIPS DEC
products, SGI, and VMS...  Read on... (After the +++)

In article <1992Feb7.154038.9715@bnlux1.bnl.gov> you write:
>    I am interested in building many of the Gnu commands on a DECsystem
>5000, such as gcc, g++, groff, etc.  We are presently running emacs and gawk.
>I have a few questions.  


As a general rule, (except for g++), the GNU utilities have just plug
and played.  There are/were some problems with gdb, but I see those have
been fixed.
+++

There is a movement inside DEC to make some software available on a CD-ROM.
Note that it is DEC employees doing this on their own time as I understand.
They haven't released a timeline yet as far as I know, and this is as much
as I know.

I intend to make my complete PD/Freeware source/binary tree available in
packaged form, available for anonymous FTP, very soon now...  However my 
stuff will be in three parts.

1)
Changed src files, which will basically be the complete file, with my
modifications, to make the package work in my configuration.  Most likely
all you should need to do is possibly edit destination paths, and then
do a make.

2)
The complete src distribution, with the files from (1) above, so that you 
won't need to ftp two separate distributions, and mess around with patch,
or any of that stuff.

3)
Binaries, under a suitable directory tree, which can be installed onto
your system with possibly just a symlink, if you don't like my path
structure.


You will be able to just grab the filesets that you want, and install them,
without worrying about the rest.


I intend to provide as much software in distributable form as I can.  We
have a common directory structure here, across all architectures, and I intend
to make available all of the packages available on all the platforms that
I have access to (provided it's relatively easy to do.  I'm not going to
try and rewrite stuff in GCC to make it work on a 720, but as soon as it's
supported on a 720, I'll make it available).

I got an overwhelming response (something like 150 messages +) about making
just pre-compiled binaries for TeX available on a few platforms, so I think
this will be a useful service.

I need a few beta-testers to help me test my distribution format.  My first
available stuff will be on a DecStation/Ultrix 4.2 format, So if you're
interested, drop me some-email.  I'll take the first few people that respond.
After I get distribution kinks worked out, appropriate announcements will be
made to appropriate groups.

(Sorry, the first offering will not include G++ for the Decstation or
for any other platform most likely.  I have an old G++ that works, but
I can't get the new one to work very well at all.  My understanding is
that the best thing to do is to wait until Gcc-2.0 is out, which apparently
is RSN.  Actually, I have G++ for the Vax under Ultrix and VMS I guess).

If you have advice or suggestions on what you'd like to see as part of this
service, please let me know.  E-mail to osyjm@{coe,cs}.montana.edu.

Well, enough of consuming your valuable time...  Back to netrek :)
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@{cs,coe}.montana.edu