Re: [9fans] OT: plan9port compilation failure

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

> > I run it on sunos 5.8 and build it with sun cc (Sun WorkShop 6 C 5.1).
>
>   Now, that is a pretty old piece of software. Is there any reason
> you don't want to upgrade ?

the sunos or the sun cc?

I guess the sun cc was not upgraded because nobody really cared enough.
for the usual c stuff it is ok (apart from those mis(sing) features
of which you will see the consequences in the plan9port cvs logs),
and those really caring here have probably been using gcc anyway.

the number of suns here is pretty low now, I'm not sure upgrades
would be considered worthwhile.
most people switched to pc's with linux or windows, or occasional mac.
this also changed how interchangeble the machines are.
on the suns we only have the bare os locally, and all home dirs
and (non-default) applications come from the fileservers.
for the linux machines most applications are local too,
which (potentially) makes them all different. that's not all.
with the suns we had usually a single os version on all machines,
or at most two at times of change.  I think we have at least three
versions of linux with some consequential shared lib incompatibilities.

> > For the last year and a half I've been using (daily, including 9term)
> > a plan9port that I built early january 2005.
> >
> > I've just rebuild plan9port from cvs (sunos 5.8, sun cc).
> > I needed minor tweaks (like the threadimpl.h thing reported here, thx)
> > I've not used much of it yet, some things (e.g. acme) do work, some not.
>
>   Hm. It kinda works for me. At least things I care about.

same here now.

however, I do have the feeling that typing in the acme tags is now even
slower than it already was. could this be a consequence of devdraw,
or other changes? (my previous acme version was from early 2005).
Also (but this is not new, I think?) in acme a single click to scroll
sometimes results in multiple scrollings.
when scrolling with b2 pressed the scrolling cannot keep up with
the mouse moving and you see the mouse cursor being warped up or down
into the scroll 'elevator' and (because of that?) the elevator jumps
up and down and up while scrolling on its way up, or overshoots and
scrolls back and forth until it is finally stable.
this all on a sun blade 100 - maybe that is too slow a machine now?

anyway, these are just little nits.
I agree that on solaris it works pretty well,
definitely those things I care about, and that's pretty impressive
(especially impressive when considering what russ recently wrote).

Axel.