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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:03:00 MST
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:36:11 MST
From: "Clint Jeffery" <cjeffery>
Message-Id: <199301061736.AA17247@chuckwalla.cs.arizona.edu>
To: uchinews!ellis!goer@speedy.wisc.edu
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
In-Reply-To: (Richard L. Goerwitz's message of 6 Jan 93 05:37:05 GMT <1993Jan6.053705.21698@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Icon for Linux?
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Richard Goerwitz writes:
Anyone hear of Icon running under Linux yet (with X extensions)?
I built Icon under Linux with X extensions over Christmas break using
configuration information supplied some time ago by Charles Hedrick.
[Linux is a free POSIX-compliant UNIX for 386/486 PC's.]
So the basic answer is: it works, with a little effort, and appears
to be very fast. I wasn't with the Linux machine long enough to run
the test suite or benchmarks.
I'd be happy to discuss details and/or provide assistance by e-mail to
folks trying to build Icon under Linux.
Clint