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Subject: [fam] fam-oss-2.6.3
From: "Rusty Ballinger" <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 06:22:47 -0700
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Yes, only thr^H^H^Hfour weeks after I said I would do it, fam-oss-2.6.3 is
out.  (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/)

This incorporates the patches that everyone's been sending for the last few
weeks, but see the caveats below.  (Also, I don't actually have gcc-2.95.2
working on my machine yet, and it's quite possible that I goofed up merging
some of the patches, so let me know if you have any problems.  I did consider
pasting the source into http://www.codesourcery.com/gcc-compile.html...)

Also, I added a rpm target, so you can go "./configure && make rpm", and it
will put RPM packages in build/rpm.  If you have other package formats you
like, let me know, and I will be happy to add them.  (I believe I have a moral
obligation to add SGI IRIX inst format next.)  RPM gave me a lot of grief, but
I'm pretty happy that it's working now, & that you don't have to be root to
build an RPM.  (oh yeah, so there are RPMs in the download area too.)

What I didn't add:

- Sumit Bose included snprintf for platforms which don't have it, but the
  qpopper licensing terms made me nervous.  I thought it would be easier to
  paste snprintf etc. from glibc than to get permission from Qualcomm to
  include theirs, and it may still turn out to be easy, but I haven't done
  it yet.  ("If at first you don't succeed... hey, are you guys going to
  dinner?")  There were a couple of other things in Sumit's patch which I
  haven't incorporated yet, which means it still won't build on IRIX 5.3
  unless you grab parts of Sumit's patch again.  (Sorry about that...)

- Ingvaldur Sigurjónsson's patch had some changes to IMonIrix.c++, but
  instead I made the configure script smarter about not building that
  on Linux. :)

Let me know if it fails in any way to surpass your wildest expectations.

--Rusty

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