Re: [Gm2] gm2-1.1.3 has been released

[Gaius Mulley]

John Long <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:53:03PM +0100, Gaius Mulley wrote:
>> John Long <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> you should be able to build gm2 with different versions of gcc.  My
>> debian systems use gcc-4.9.2 and also gcc-4.7.2.  However there are
>> problems in building gm2 under Solaris as reported by John Cox.

Hi,

apologies to all concerned, I should have written John O Goyo.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gm2/2015-04/msg00002.html

> I missed the report. Thanks for letting me know. I am trying to keep up with
> interesting projects that will run on Solaris SPARC but I have a long list
> of other stuff I am working on so most of what I'm interested in is always
> on the back burner.
>
>> I've applied for access to the gcc compile farm which hopefully allow
>> me to ssh onto more varieties of hosts.  I'm also currently downloading
>> freebsd to run under vmware to hopefully provide a stepping stone
>> towards Solaris,
>
> I hope it is granted quickly. If not maybe OpenCSW is another place to
> ask. I believe they are hosting several other development efforts beside
> their own. Not that I am suggesting that OpenCSW should be "the" source for
> gm2 on Solaris, because I don't use OpenCSW but at least they seem to have
> enough resources for hosting open source projects.
>
> If you strike out (seems very doubtful) get in touch and depending on how
> much time you need and what time(s) of day etc. I can possibly set up an
> account for you on a box here. I have done that in the past for other
> projects but it's a little harder now since I'm having some other equipment
> problems and the summer is coming and running a SPARC server in my office is
> no fun when it's hot!

many thanks for the offer - will follow up OpenCSW - I'm currently also
downloading solaris-11.2 from Oracle - and try this under vmware,

regards,
Gaius