Porting to Ultrix - HELP!!!

[James Brister]

On 17 Jan 91 08:46:56 GMT, steve at cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) said:

> We have just acquired a DEC Station 5000/200 RISC machine and I am
> trying to port our "local" (previously Vax- or Sun-resident) software to
> it.  We are running Ultrix V4.0 (RISC).   I would greatly value any insights
> from anyone who has already tried such an operation - most things seem to
> port o.k. but a few, like Tex and the Writer's Workbench, are proving a bit
> of a problem...

I've built TeX (3.0) and GNU Emacs 18.55 as well as billions and billions
(hi Carl!) of programs from the net, with no problems at all, on Ultrix
RISC machines. There's no real difference between Ultrix/RISC and
Ultrix/VAX.

Any program that is sloppy about data alignment should compile and run, but
will generate a lot of unaligned access traps (and cause the machine to
slow).

If you can be more specific about the TeX problems you're having I might be
of more help.

James
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James Brister                                           brister at decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA    {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister