Ok so I spent the day building stuff on RENO, I thought maybe I could bring it up to par package wise, like the UWisc 4.3 BSD… Oh boy what a PITA!
First the syscalls changed to RENO so hardly any of the packages built on Uwisc work on reno.. expect LOTS of unhandled syscalls. Wow, that’s lame.
I got bash 2.0 to build without much pokeing, but get this.. Control+C kills it!
myname# bash
bash-2.00# Bus error (core dumped)
Yeah. Nice.
gcc 2.5.8 can build binutils 2.8.1 & gcc 2.7.2.2 so I thought that was cool to go onwards to gzip & lynx…
Well launching lynx on ANYTHING other then file:// gives me this:
Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!
Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!
lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
Exiting…
Oh yeah, and it built dammed near clean except for adding a va_list definition….
I was going to try to build more stuff, but it just feels so futile. Since adventure (zork) had been removed in RENO I was going to try to build GNU Fortran 77 & get a build of that going, but now it’s most likely it won’t work at all. I guess I’ll do some kind of update on RENO but why would anyone actually want to load it? Why is it so popular?
I wonder if there is an easy accessable 4.4 BSD release, all that is on TUSH is 4.4 Alpha… At this point I wonder if Net/2 would be better…
Anyways that’s been my day.