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Article: 13435 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 8.0 for Solaris 9?
Date: 9 Jun 2002 20:37:08 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
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In article <ae08qj$iq4$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>,
fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
>
> Has anyone built C-Kermit 8.0:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
>
> for Solaris 9 yet? I don't have access to Solaris 9 yet, so I have
> not been able to try it.
Frank, this shouldn't be necessary for Solaris (or any commercial
UNIX). Just pick the oldest OS release you are going to support
(e.g. Solaris 2.5.1) and build under that. Binary compatability
guarantees mean this will work on all future releases providing
you are not using unsupported or EOL'ed features (at least in
Solaris - I can't speak for all commercial UNIXs). This is one of
the really nice things about commercial UNIXs, and is absolutely
essential for deployment of commercial applications on such
platforms. Thus you can list your 2.5.1 binaries as suitable for
Solaris 2.5.1 -> Solaris 8 (or Solaris 9 when you get a chance to
test in it). This should make your life much simpler, and avoid
the all-too-common misnomer that people have to rebuild application
binaries for each OS release, which continuously leaks across from
the open-source OS's.
You only need to introduce binary support at another release if
you are intending to use features which are not present in your
base support release.
> In the More Interesting department, I did not try adding a 64-bit target,
> nor any secure targets (Kerberos, SSL, etc). The latter are particularly
> interesting since Solaris 9 comes with bundled libraries (but reportedly
> not header files?).
Now that might be a reason to add a Solaris 9 target.
--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer