Re: [Bug-gnubg] Did I just mess up?

[Joern Thyssen]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:13:42PM +0200, Holger wrote
> At 19:45 28.07.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:16:01PM +0200, Holger wrote
> >> OK, more specifically: ... any platform that we want gnubg to compile on.
> >> The answer may still be yes. But as long as I don't see a good
> >> counter-example I suppose this must be rather exotic.
> >
> >The target platforms for GNU Backgammon is GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux, and I
> >assume that glib is present on those (since the very first glib).
> >
> >Candidates for a missing glib is AIX, Sun, IRIX, and other commercial unix
> >flavours, but like windows they are not among the target platforms.
> 
> For Solaris I know that there is a glib, IBM would surprise me very much if 
> not, and imho all other commercial Unices are getting Linux compliant in 
> order to take advantage of the wealth of open source programmes.

That just increases the probability of an arbitratry AIX or Sun installation
to have glib, but it's still far away from 1 :-)

Jørn