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Subject: Re: Summary: Building TIS on Solaris 2.3
From: Kelly . Goen @ Eng . Sun . COM (Kelly Goen [CONTRACTOR])
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 13:16:48 -0700
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, twj @ world . std . com

I have currently built TIS under 2.4 FCS Sparc and x86...
I am currently testing it here... so far so good except for some funkiness
in the /usr/ucblib stuff...

     let me know what you find out...
      kelly
p.s. I am working with TIS alpha...



> From firewalls-owner @
 GreatCircle .
 COM Fri Sep 16 12:08 PDT 1994
> To: firewalls @
 GreatCircle .
 COM
> Cc: twj @
 world .
 std .
 com
> Subject: Summary: Building TIS on Solaris 2.3
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 12:17:29 -0400
> From: Todd W Joseph <twj @
 world .
 std .
 com>
> 
> 
> I received several replies asking me to summarize responses to my
> original mail.  My original mail is enclosed.
> 
> Many people suggested I swith to SunOS 4.1.3.  I wish I could.  I am
> saddled with Solaris 2.3 for various reasons at my site.
> 
> Most people were curious about how well the TIS toolkit I built
> worked.  It is still a bit early to tell, but tn-gw, ftp-gw, netacl,
> and smap/smapd all seem to work well after limited testing.
> 
> One person said that building with the /usr/ucblib libs is crazed and
> that things will fail in random ways.  I have heard this statement
> before regarding SVR4 in general (thus my original mail), but I wonder
> if this is a problem with Solaris 2.3.
> 
> Because Sun has strong BSD ties & is trying to sell SVR4 to their BSD
> installed base, I would expect them to have the best ucblibs of all
> the SVR4 vendors.  
> 
> I contacted Sun support to find out what condition the /usr/ucblib's
> are in.  I had to explain what the /usr/ucblib's were and wait a few
> days to hear back.  Sun told me that some things work well and others
> don't.  I asked for more specifics and have not heard back from them
> (it's been roughly a week).
> 
> I'll keep the list up to date as things change.
> 
> Todd Joseph
> twj @
 world .
 std .
 com
> 
> -------- Original Mail to Firewalls:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have built the TIS toolkit on Solaris 2.3 using the Sun C compiler
> and the /ucb/ucb/cc shell script -- which uses /usr/ucblib instead of
> /usr/lib.  Everything except ftpd built cleanly with little effort.
> 
> Has anyone else built the TIS toolkit in this way?  If so, are there
> any gotchas?
> 
> I'll summarize if there is signifigant interest.
> 
> Todd
> twj @
 world .
 std .
 com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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