Subject: Pine 3.94 in SunOS 5.5

From: Robert Zhou JT <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:28:34 -0700

Hi,

I'm trying to build Pine 3.94 in Solaris/SunOS 5.5, and encounter lots of 
errors.
The command I'm using is "build sun".

Does anybody here have similar experiences?

Best Regards,

Robert

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From: Don Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:58:00 -0700

Hello:

Try "build sol" (if using the sun CC compiler), or "build gso" if using
gcc.

SunOS verions 4.XX and below are vintage "SunOS", i.e.  more or less
Berkeley-like Unix, while 5.XX are System V Release 4 (AT&T SVR4), which
sun calls Solaris.  To make things more confusing, sun numbers its Solaris 
versions differently - so, e.g. Solaris 2.5 = SunOS 5.5 .

Thus, the "build sun" build script is intended for SunOS 4.XX .

I hope you find this helpful.

Don Miller
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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 16 Jul 96 13:02:17 GMT

>versions differently - so, e.g. Solaris 2.5 = SunOS 5.5 .

At the risk of seeming pedantic, it is a bit more complicated than that.
The OS IS SunOS 4.x or SunOS 5.x.  Solaris is a combination of a given
release of SunOS with OpenWindows appropriate to that OS.  An appropriate
version of OW is 2 numbers less than the SunOS version, so Solaris 2.5
includes SunOS 5.5 and OW 3.5.  Since I converted to Solaris when it was
2.1, I have not kept all the subtleties of Solaris 1.x straight, but I think
the rules declare that Solaris 1.1 consists of SunOS 4.3.1 with OW 2.3.1 and
Solaris 1.2 is SunOS 4.4 with OW 2.4.

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