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Re: Installing CVS on a Power 5 IBM server
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Mike |
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Re: Installing CVS on a Power 5 IBM server |
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Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:51:54 GMT |
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In article <address@hidden>, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> Jacques Vidal <address@hidden> writes:
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>> "Mark D. Baushke" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > What Operating system will you be running on it?
>>
>> Actually there will be 2 servers - AIX 5L and Linux.
>>
>> > It should work fine with GNU/Linux as the OS.
>> >
>> > I know that AIX4.3 works with cvs 1.11.18, so it should work for AIX 5L.
>>
>> Thanks. Although these "it should work" leave some room for the
>> unexpected ;-).
>
> Yes. I have no reports of anyone using cvs 1.11.x under AIX 5L and it is
> not currently in any of the test beds.
>
> If you really care, then I suggest you ask the vendor to test it for you
> and submit problems reports and/or bug fixes to address@hidden for
> remedy.
>
>> Are they just a guess, or do you have experience with
>> installing/running CVS on these Power 5 systems?
>
> I have never worked with AIX 5L myself. However, a quick look for POSIX
> and AIX 5L shows that AIX 5L is supposed implement POSIX 1003.1-1996
> which should be good enough for our GNULIB system to figure out how to
> do the things it needs to do.
>
> I would urge you to do a full configure and 'make check' on the system
> to see if it passes all of the regression tests or not.
>
> Feel free to report your results to the address@hidden list as I am
> sure they will be interested to know if it works for you or not.
>
> Good luck,
> -- Mark
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I'm using cvs 1.12.2 on aix 5.2 ML 4.